Lap around ALM with Visual Studio and TFS 2013

Application Lifecycle Management
with Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013
Insightful Solutions :: Innovative Technologies
Paul Hacker Microsoft ALM MVP
paul.hacker@agilethought.com

Agenda
• TFS Overview
• Agile Management
• Developer Tools
• Testing
• Feedback
• DevOps
• Release Management
• TFS in the Cloud

 Code Metrics
 Code Coverage
 Coded UI Testing
 Code Clone
 Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation)
 Code Review
 Task Suspend/Resume
 Test Case Management: Test
Manager client and web based
 Manual Testing
 Exploratory Testing
 Lab Management
 Release Management
 PowerPoint Storyboarding
+ TFS full capabilities
 Agile Portfolio Management
 Team Room
 Feedback Manager
 Work Item charting
+ Team Foundation Service
 Windows Desktop and Windows
Store Apps
 Web and Cloud development
 Office and SharePoint Development
 Office 365 Cloud Business Apps
 Blend for Visual Studio
 LightSwitch
 Extensible Testing Framework
 Advanced Profiling and Analysis
 Refactoring & Peek Definition
 Third-Party Extensibility
Features

Web Access
• Team sensitive home
page
– Customize tiles with
team favorites
– View burndown
– Start feedback
– View members

Agile Portfolio Management
• Agile for large workloads
– Manage several teams in
an organization
– Get insight from Features
and track progress down
to Stories and/or Tasks
• Consolidate portfolio
– Easy navigation and
visualization of complex
hierarchy of scenarios
– Gain understanding of
overall project completion
across multiple teams

Project Teams
• Team room
– Durable & real-time
communication to
improve team
collaboration
– Centralized and
searchable project
activity feed
including changes
to code, work
items, build status
and more

New Team Explorer
• Team Explore starts at a Home page
• Separate pages have targeted functionality
• My Work supports:
– Work Item association
– Easy Shelve / Unshelve (Suspend / Resume)
– Merge from Shelveset
• Pending changes supports:
– Work Item association
– Include / Exclude files
– Shelve / Unshelve
– Find Shelvesets
– Resolve Conflicts
– Undo All
– Manage workspaces

CodeLens

Code Review Request and Response
• Built into Team Explorer 2013
• Review Request and Response Work Items
• Streamlined workflow

Web based testing tools

Load Testing in the cloud
• Cloud-based load
testing
– Use Visual Studio
Ultimate combined
with Team
Foundation Service to
conduct load testing
using Windows Azure
hosted load agents
– Scale load tests easily
from tens to
thousands of users
without the need to
setup your own
infrastructure

Feedback: Initiating
• Click on link in Web
Access
– Select stakeholders
– Instruct how to access the
application
– Focus the feedback
• Feedback request is
mailed out
– Stakeholders click a link to
start a feedback session

Feedback: Responding
• Click on a link to start a
session
– Feedback can also be
initiated “voluntarily” by
the Stakeholder
• Select what to record
– Screen / voice / both
– Screenshot at any time
– Attach files
– Type comments

DevOps: Integration from SCOM to TFS

SCOM Issues in TFS

Agenda
• TFS Overview
• Agile Management
• Developer Tools
• Testing and Lab Management
• Feedback
• DevOps
• Release Management
• TFS in the Cloud

How do we think about Release Management

Automation

Visual Studio Online

Low overhead automated builds

Load testing, simplified

Application Insights

question and answer session
Q&A
Paul Hacker Microsoft ALM MVP
paul.hacker@agilethought.com

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