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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

Tracking a release in release management


It is common to want to see the list of releases by status, check the status of a current release, track the approvals for a release, investigate the failures in logs, and view the details of the agent processing the release. In this recipe, you'll learn about all the release tracking features available in release management.

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to the Release hub for the FabrikamTFVC Team. The landing page shows you a list of all release definitions. This is a quick way to see the status of releases. The view surfaces information about the status as well as the release definition, environments, build, branch, start time, and created by. Releases triggered using the continuous deployment configuration have an icon in the first column:

  2. This view can be filtered by the status of the releases. From the top-right corner, change the State dropdown to Rejected; this will narrow the list down to rejected releases:

  3. Switch over to the Overview tab. This will...