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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Chapter 2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories

	"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort".
	--John Ruskin

In this chapter, we will cover:

Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project
Enabling code analysis check-in policy
Performing a baseless merge between sibling branches in TFVC
Reparenting a branch in TFVC
Unlocking files checked out by someone else
Unshelving a shelveset created in one branch to another branch
Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore
Conducting code reviews in TFS
Setting up policies for branches in Git
Conducting Pull requests in TFS
Analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services cube

Key benefits

Release high quality, reliable software quickly through building, testing, and deployment automation

Improve the predictability, reliability, and availability of TFS in your organization by scheduling administration and maintenance activities

Extend, customize, and integrate tools with TFS, enabling your teams to manage their application lifecycles effectively

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is aimed at software professionals including Developers, Testers, Architects, Configuration Analysts, and Release Managers who want to understand the capabilities of TFS to deliver better quality software faster. A working setup of TFS 2015 and some familiarity with the concepts of software life cycle management is assumed.

What you will learn

Creating a Team Project with Dashboards, Assigning License, Adding users, and

Auditing Access

Setting up a Git repository in an existing TFVC-based Team Project

Setting up branch policies and conducting Pull requests with code reviews

Mapping, assigning and tracking work items shared by multiple teams

Setting up and customizing Backlogs, Kanban board, Sprint Taskboard, and dashboards

Creating a Continuous Integration, Continuous Build, and Release Pipeline

Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage Technical Debt

Triggering Selenium Web Tests on a Selenium Test Grid using TFBuild

Using Visual Studio Team Services Cloud load testing capability with new Build framework

Extending and customizing the capabilities of Team Foundation Server using API and Process Editor

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Sudheer Feb 01, 2016

Tarun Arora, Big Aaplause to you... you have covered amazing over 80 hands-on DevOps and ALM-focused recipes for Scrum Teams to enable the Continuous Delivery of high-quality Software... am happy that have been associated with this book as a technical reviewer....

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Utkarsh Shigihalli Mar 15, 2016

I recently purchased this book and I am totally impressed with it. This book has been my go-to book for ready to use recipes which help me to quickly read and implement them onto the product. This book has everything on TFS 2015 and is suitable for novice and also advanced users of TFS.As the book cover says there are more than 80 recipes in this book. Each topic has detailed instructions and are supported by many screenshots. Every recipe is nicely divided in to 3 important sections - Getting Ready, How to do it and How it works. "Getting Ready" section explains all the pre-requisites you need, "How to do it" section details the steps to do it and lastly "How it works" explains what happened in the previous step in detail. There are also other sections like "There's more" and "See also" which gives additional information on the topic.Each chapter has numerous recipes, from simple recipes like "connecting to a team project" and goes to some advanced recipes like "analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services".This book has also managed to cover all the aspects of DevOps using TFS 2015, from setting up a team project, to building and releasing with new build and release system, to extending TFS using REST and also recipes to better manage the TFS.I highly recommend this book to anyone practicing DevOps and ALM with TFS, and is looking for step-by-step instructions on how to build, test and deliver the high-quality software using TFS 2015.

Ravi Vajaria Mar 18, 2016

I recommend this book to anyone working with Team Foundation Server. Tarun has due diligently picked the recipes in that target situations in pretty much every project. For each topic, getting ready, how to do it, how it works and there is more sections are very nicely organized and helped me not finding myself lost in the woods!The paperback is on my desk, helping me find answers to common problems and how-tos. The eBook helps me mulling over the ideas and thoughts while I work out!Thanks Tarun for putting this together. Looking forward to your next publication!

MB Feb 17, 2016

In this book, Tarun covers every area of TFS from source control management, work item management, testing, and build/release automation to administration. I enjoyed this book because Tarun goes beyond the basics of TFS 2015, digging into advanced topics such as extended TFS with the TFS Object Model and REST API. Tarun also covers more advanced TFS administration (i.e., analyzing and configuring the database-level test retention policies, managing CodeLens, and analyzing log files for diagnose common issues).As a long-time TFS user, having performed countless upgrades from all versions, including Visual Source Safe, I still found hidden gems in this book. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on automated testing integration and build/release vNext. I highly recommend this book to anyone that administers, manages, supports, or uses TFS on a regular basis.

Sergio A Romero Mar 29, 2016

Excellent book, Clear examples with practical applications and examples.It can be used as quick guide book for specific scenarios, or self paced introduction to DevOps practices, The recipes listed in this book are sound practical solutions that can be implemented as best practices in any organization.The books walks you through the setting of your project, managing source code, organizing your work and tracking progress, illustrating features available to the Visual Studio Team Services and TFS on premises.The multiple how to examples helps the more advance users to quickly review and use the new features. It is a excellent guide to get the best use of TFS/VSTS tools.

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook: Over 80 hands-on DevOps and ALM-focused recipes for Scrum Teams to enable the Continuous Delivery of high-quality Software... Faster!

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