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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


We are entering the era of self-driven cars; you may ask, "why can't products just maintain themselves?" The Product Teams deliver high-quality software yet the real-world usage of a feature can significantly differ from its anticipated usage. The building blocks the product operates on and the ecosystem of frameworks that rely on the product keep evolving too. TFS does not have a very high administration over head. The administration needs are somewhat proportional to the level of usage. Smaller Teams may be able to administer TFS within the day-to-day activities of individuals on the Team, while larger Teams may need a dedicated TFS administrator.

The key tasks that need to be performed by a TFS administrator can broadly be divided into three categories: Update, Maintain, and Optimize:

Let's explain each of these tasks in detail:

Update: It is very important to keep the environment secure, and for this reason, all security updates that the MBSA tool identifies as "Critical" should...