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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

Mapping artifacts to a release definition


The release definition allows you to deploy an application into multiple environments. The files and installers required to deploy an application are referred to as artifacts. At present, release management understands artifacts from Team build, Jenkins, and on-premises TFS. A release definition can have one or more artifacts. This flexibility is extremely useful for Teams building software in modules that are pulled together to form a release. In this recipe, you'll learn how to map the output from a Team build definition into a release definition.

Getting ready

To edit a release definition, you need to be a member of the Release Administrators Group. These permissions are also available to the Project Administrators Group.

Scenario: FabrikamTFVC Team has two build definitions, namely, FabrikamTFVC.Website and FabrikamTFVC.Services. Website and services are two components of the same application; these components need to be rolled out together in the...