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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

Exporting and importing test cases in Excel from TFS


While test cases in TFS can be accessed from Microsoft Test Manager as well as Team Web Access, you may still find stakeholders wanting to access the test cases from Excel. As a matter of preference, a few of your stakeholders may find it easier to document test cases in excel. While TFS does not offer an out-of-the-box feature to export and import test cases in Excel, it offers a good Software Development Kit (SDK) that can be used to create tools that enable such functionality. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use "test case export to excel" and "Test Case Migrator Plus (open source community tools)" to export test cases into Excel and import test cases from Excel into TFS.

Getting ready

Download and install the following utilities on your machine:

Note

You'll need elevated permissions to install these utilities...