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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
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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

Introduction


Software teams are constantly under pressure to deliver more… faster. End users expect software to simply work. Low quality software just isn't acceptable. But, you may ask what the right level of quality is? Quality is a very subjective term; it is therefore important for Teams to agree to a definition of quality for their software. Teams that are unable to define quality usually end up testing for coverage rather than testing for quality.

The toolkit in Team Foundation Server provides tooling for both manual and automation testing. Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), first introduced with TFS 2010, enables testers to plan, track, and run manual, exploratory, and automated tests. While Test Manager fully integrates with TFS, it does not offer any integration with other testing platforms. The Test Manager architecture does not lend itself to extensibility. Microsoft has ambitions to support every developer and every app; however, it isn't possible with tooling that can't be run on...