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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

Distributing test execution on a Lab Machine Group


Earlier in this chapter, you learned how to create a Machine Group and deploy the test agent on selected machines in the Machine Group. The TFBuild framework ships a task to distribute the test execution across multiple test agents. In this recipe, you'll learn how to trigger a distributed test run across a farm of test runners deployed in a Machine Group.

Getting ready

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has over 2,000 automated coded UI tests that need to be executed as part of the functional testing workflow. FabrikamTFVC Team would like the ability to parallelize the test execution. In order to do this, the Team wants to deploy the Visual Studio test agent to all machines in the Fabrikam-QA Machine Group and then parallelize by distributing the test execution at the test assembly level:

In this recipe, you'll be using the Fabrikam-QA Machine Group. If you don't already have Machine Group set up, follow the instructions in the Creating and setting...