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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues


In this recipe, you'll learn how to configure agents and create pools and queues. You'll also learn how a queue can be used across multiple Team Project Collections.

Getting ready

Scenario: At Fabrikam, the FabrikamTFVC and FabrikamGit Team Projects need their own build queues. The FabrikamTFVC Teams build process can be executed on a Windows Server. The FabrikamGit Team build process needs both Windows and OS X. The Teams want to set up three build agents on a Windows Server; one build agent on an OS X machine. The Teams want to group two Windows Agents into a Windows Pool for FabrikamTFVC Team and group one Windows and one Mac Agent into another pool for the FabrikamGit Team:

Permission: To configure a build agent, you should be in the Build Administrators Group.

The prerequisites for setting up the build agent on a Windows-based machine are as follows:

  • The build agent should have a supporting version of Windows. The list of supported versions is...