Build definition
VSTS provides an intuitive user interface for defining and building build definitions. A build definition comprises discrete individual steps and activities, and they together form the build process. Each project and solution has its unique requirements of the build process. Continuous integration does not provide any specification regarding what goes into a build pipeline. Continuous integration states that for it to be effective, it should have steps to ensure that the code can be compiled and its features and functionality can be tested. A build process for our Online Medicine sample application is shown here. This build pipeline comprises getting the latest version of code immediately after a developer checks-in the code, compiling code and generating binaries, executing unit tests and code coverage on the generated assembles, naming and versioning the build execution, and finally dropping the build artifacts to a location from where the release pipeline can pick and...