If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!
The document provides an overview of DevOps and related tools. It discusses DevOps concepts like bringing development and operations teams together, continuous delivery, and maintaining service stability through innovation. It also covers DevOps architecture, integration with cloud computing, security practices, types of DevOps tools, and some popular open source DevOps tools.
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
More and more organizations are turning to DevOps as a way of working together to improve the efficiency and quality of software delivery and start adding more value to the business. But what exactly is DevOps and what does it mean for you and your organization?
Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP Kendra Little to discover:
• What is DevOps and what benefits can it offer your organization?
• Who in your organization should be involved in DevOps?
• Why should your organization adopt DevOps?
• How can your organization start implementing DevOps?
This document summarizes a presentation about adopting DevOps practices to improve software delivery. It discusses how delivering software is challenging and costly, and that DevOps can help by improving collaboration between development and operations teams. A case study is presented from HM Health Solutions, who saw a 75% reduction in time spent fixing defects in testing and an 82% reduction in production after adopting DevOps practices like continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment. Tips are provided on getting started with an enterprise DevOps rollout.
Why do we need to have software testing happen in a continuous manner? This deck explains the importance of Continuous Integration and a case study of 24x7 Testing.
DevOps is a culture that improves collaboration between development and operations teams. It aims to speed up delivery of software and services according to business needs through automation. The three pillars of DevOps are infrastructure automation, continuous delivery, and reliability engineering. Automation improves productivity, reliability, and standardizes processes. This allows for faster, more cost effective and higher quality software delivery that better meets customer needs. DevOps builds trust between teams and increases business revenue through quicker feedback and turnaround.
The pursuit for the perfect synchrony between software development and IT operations is still ongoing, and striking the balance won’t happen any time soon. Understand and address these 5 common DevOps challenges to achieve a higher- functioning and collaborative organization.
Recently I was asked to explain what dev-ops is at a large enterprise software vendor undergoing transformation.
In these slides, I present the concepts, tools and mindset that drive DevOPS.
Continuous Delivery presents a compelling vision of builds that are automatically deployed and tested until ready for production.
Most teams aren't there yet. Some never want to go that far. Others want to push the envelope further.
This deck presents a model for scoring yourself on the continuum and examples of how companies can decide what parts of CD to adopt first, later and not at all.
Slides from this webcast: bit.ly/mTUTq4
Discussion of what DevOps is, why we need it, what sorts of shared tooling helps it, and how it fits in to an enterprise rollout.
This document provides an overview of DevOps success including:
1) High-performing IT organizations that practice DevOps are able to deploy code more frequently, have faster lead times, and higher change success rates, leading to increased reliability, productivity, and market growth.
2) Organizations should align incentives, form cross-functional teams, and automate workflows to reduce manual work and cycle times for better visibility and job satisfaction.
3) Key DevOps practices include continuous integration, version control, and continuous delivery across all technologies to reduce deployment pain and increase deployment frequency.
4) When starting a DevOps transformation, companies should establish a single source of truth, standardize processes, iterate on those processes, and
DevOps is becoming the latest revolution in the field of Information Technology. DevOps is an extension of agile principles which focuses of user's satisfaction. DevOps is a mix of Product Development, Quality Assurance, and System Operation. It brings down the silos between these departments to increase efficiency in the products of an enterprise.
Nowadays, more and more enterprises are embracing DevOps for its advantages. This presentation is just an introduction of DevOps. People who don't have a deep understanding of computer & IT concepts, can easily follow the commentary on DevOps in this presentation.
Demystifying DevOps for Ops - Including Findings from the 2015 State of DevOp...
DevOps represents a profound change from the way most IT departments have traditionally worked: from siloed teams and high-anxiety releases to everyone collaborating on uneventful and more frequent releases of higher-quality code.
It doesn't matter how large or small an organization is, or even whether it's historically slow moving or risk averse — there are ways to adopt DevOps sanely, and get measurable results in just weeks.
DevOps, sibling of Agile is born of the need to improve IT service delivery agility to the more stable environment.
DevOps movement emphasizes tearing the boundaries between makers (Development) & caretakers (Operations) of IT services/products.
How do measure our progress in a journey towards continuous integration? What are other people doing?
This presentation provides an measuring stick for CD Maturity and simple pattern for reviewing your current situation and deciding what to work on next.
The document summarizes a DevOps 2016 Summit agenda. It includes presentations on Kubernetes DevOps by Ray Tsang from Google, DevOps powered by containers by Glenn West from Red Hat, Docker by a speaker from MediaTek, using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana for log centralization and visualization, IoT Docker DevOps by Linker Network Software, shaking up culture with automation by a Yahoo Japan speaker, monitoring by a speaker from Gogolook, Chinese infrastructure by Sammy Lin, continuous integration/delivery by a speaker from Vpon, and what DevOps is through building on lean and agile practices.
This document discusses the evolution of the DevOps Quality Management Office (QMO). It outlines the vision of continuous business-driven testing to reduce the time between development and operations. Key aspects of the DevOps-driven testing approach include continuous integration and delivery, lean techniques, standardization, test optimization, and establishing a hybrid test organization. The document also compares traditional vs DevOps testing approaches and provides examples of DevOps testing success levers. It proposes that the QMO can advise on developing a DevOps strategy and roadmap to improve throughput, availability, and time to market.
State of testing at Microsoft focuses on quality, collaboration throughout the development lifecycle. Microsoft provides tools to empower testing, feedback, and monitoring including test case management, manual and exploratory testing, browser-based testing, feedback management, quality dashboards, lab management, release management, and application insights. The tools are designed to put quality at the center and close the loop between development and operations.
This huge transformation for Visual Studio to enable the creation of any application is two-fold, on the server and on the client:
On the client side, Visual Studio 2015 provides a solution to create first-class applications for any device including iOS, Android and Windows.
On the server side, just like the rest of the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio is embracing Linux and provides a development environment for creating server applications that run on Linux.
We will also support major platforms in our ALM tooling – with features like cross-platform build and heterogenous release management offered by TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Online
What about “every developer”?
Last year, at our Connect() event we made a significant announcement targeted at individual developers, such as students, start-ups, small businesses.
With VS Community, eligible developers can use a full IDE, equivalent to the current VS Professional edition, for creating applications across the cloud and devices – for free!
But what about Enterprises?
With Visual Studio 2015, we are making it easier for enterprises to acquire and use Visual Studio, with a simpler model that will give developers working in organizations easier and more affordable access to Visual Studio. In this new model, we have introduced a new edition of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Enterprise.
What is DevOps? It’s a fairly hot term in today’s application development and operations space,but there are many different definitions as to what DevOps really is. Ultimately, DevOps is abouthow teams build software, deploy software and maintain it throughout its lifecycle. There is nosingle, right answer to the question, but there are a number of tools and strategies that can helpcustomers adopt a winning DevOps process that allows dev and operations teams to moreproductive together.In this session, the audience will learn what DevOps is at a high level, provide strategies for howto implement a DevOps process that fits their organization’s needs and how the MicrosoftApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling can help with this. As part of the session,attendees can expect to learn how to set up the Microsoft ALM stack for their teams and how touse it effectively in their software development lifecycle, regardless of the role each individual plays on the team.
Implementing Azure DevOps with your Testing Project
Implementing Azure DevOps With Your Testing Project
Are you challenged with different teams working on different platforms making it difficult to get insight into another team’s work?
Is your team seeking ways to automate the code deployments so you can spend more time developing new features and writing more tests, and spend less time deploying and running manual tests?
RTTS, a Microsoft Gold DevOps Partner, will take you through solving these challenges with Azure DevOps.
Tuesday, June 16th 2020 @11am ET
Session Overview
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During the webinar, we will walk you through the following process of utilizing Azure DevOps:
- The challenges that inspired the Azure DevOps solution that you may experience as well
- The strategy for implementing Azure Devops
- Solutions in our every day processes to increase our times efficiency and save time
- A demo of an Azure DevOps environment for testing teams
The see a recording of the webinar, please visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vIic3wxaS4
To learn more about RTTS, please visit:
https://www.rttsweb.com
Rational Quality Manager provides test management capabilities including test planning, execution, and analysis. It allows for collaboration between team members and provides dashboards and reports. RQM is part of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform and integrates with other Rational tools through the Jazz technology platform. RQM provides centralized management of test assets, environments, and utilization metrics to improve efficiency of the testing process.
The document provides information on DevOps practices and tools from Microsoft. It discusses how DevOps enables continuous delivery of value through integrating people, processes, and tools. Benefits of DevOps include more frequent and stable releases, lower change failure rates, and empowered development teams. The document provides examples of DevOps scenarios and recommends discussing solutions and migration plans with Microsoft.
Pete Marshall - casmadrid2015 - Continuous Delivery in Legacy Environments
This document discusses practices for implementing continuous delivery in legacy software environments. It outlines key characteristics of continuous delivery like keeping software deployable throughout its lifecycle. It then provides examples of how one company transitioned their monolithic legacy application to a continuous delivery model by using techniques like the strangler pattern, refactoring to separate concerns, and restructuring their organization into cross-functional product teams. The document emphasizes establishing technical foundations, learning through the build-deploy-learn cycle, and focusing on delivering value to customers.
Nuevosoft Test Manager is a simplest and most effective test management solution in the industry. It helps improve testcase quality using innovative methods.
This document discusses DevOps, including what it is, why it matters, challenges, and the Microsoft DevOps platform. DevOps is the union of development and operations to enable continuous delivery of value to end users. It replaces silos and promotes collaboration and shared practices. DevOps enables faster delivery through automation, monitoring, and other practices like continuous integration and delivery. Challenges include culture change, automation, legacy systems, and skills. The Microsoft DevOps platform supports continuous delivery, continuous testing, release management, and integration with any language or platform through tools like Visual Studio Team Services.
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
Azure DevOps is a DevOps platform that provides tools to help teams plan work, collaborate on code development, and implement continuous delivery pipelines. It includes Azure Boards for tracking work items, Azure Repos for version control, Azure Pipelines for builds/releases, Azure Test Plans for testing, and Azure Artifacts for package management. These tools work together to help teams deliver value faster through practices like continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring. The document provides an overview of each tool and how they integrate as part of an end-to-end DevOps solution. It also shares customer stories about how companies like GEICO have been able to reduce release cycles and engage customers more through use of Azure DevOps.
Between spending hours (or days!) making sure you can code and test locally and the difficulties of keeping remote environments up to date, sometimes we find ourselves falling back on "It works on my machine!". Getting rid of the difficulties in making new development environments and maintaining testing infrastructure is really key to banishing the dreaded phrase. In this session, we'll take you through some of the recent tools and techs that will not only make your life easier but will mean you never have to say "works on my machine" ever again.
DevOps for the Mainframe aims to leverage continuous integration, cloud technologies, and beyond to deliver z/OS applications. The document discusses how DevOps principles can help enable rapid evolution of deployed z/OS services by reducing risk, decreasing costs, and improving quality. It provides examples of how tools from IBM can help implement a continuous delivery pipeline for mainframe development and testing that incorporates automated testing, configuration, and deployment.
Azure Devops provides a set of cloud DevOps services that allow enterprises to deliver business outcomes, from an idea to production-level code. Azure Devops works for any language, any cloud, and any platform.
We deliver results through our smart exam architecture and agile development methodology. Our architecture is designed for scale, reliability and security and supports AWS best practices. We use agile methods like Kanban boards and Git version control. Our code meets standards and we use tools like HelpnDoc for documentation. We implement test database designs and have experience with large-scale exam applications.
Plan, manage, and execute tests with Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Management in Visual Studio 2013 which will make it easier to conduct manual and automated testing across a variety of environments. This presentation covers the new exploratory testing approach offered by Microsoft Test Manager; the simplified setup and administration of Lab Management environments; and some of the other fit-and-finish features across the testing scenario.
Improving The Software Development Lifecycle With Visual Studio Team System
The document discusses improving the software development lifecycle with Visual Studio Team System. It introduces Visual Studio Team System as an application lifecycle management solution that increases project transparency, facilitates team collaboration, and improves software quality. It then provides examples of extending Visual Studio Team System, including integrating it with Project Server for project management, adding continuous integration capabilities, and customizing processes. It concludes with tips for adopting Visual Studio Team System such as determining goals, developing a roadmap, and addressing potential resistance to changes.
Implementing enterprise DevOps for a large-scale organization is a challenge faced by many companies. Understand all the basics, challenges, strategies, tips, principles, best practices, and so much more you need to know for leveraging DevOps Successfully.
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solving and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to happier people delivering better products. Without effective feedback, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! In my experience, people are generally not confident in their feedback skills. This makes feedback feel risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing and so then they give no feedback at all.
Feedback Doesn't Have to Suck. In this fast-paced 20 minute session focused on supercharging your feedback skills, I will help you get a good foothold on where to start. We’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is, attributes of high-quality feedback, and some “tips and tricks” to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me both as a manager and a team member. You’ll be a feedback champion before you know it!
VS Liv MSHQ 2022 - Measuring Up! How To Choose Agile Metrics - Dugan.pdf
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense to you, that felt counterproductive to your or the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect in a sane fashion? Oftentimes, I find that metrics being collected are ones that are easy to collect and report on but are not necessarily the ones that will help the team learn and improve.
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have taken the lead. Metrics have lagged a bit and often rely on very waterfall-style milestones and phase-gates to determine a team's effectiveness. In the spirit of continuous improvement, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
This document discusses increasing adaptability through developing three skills: change awareness, cognitive flexibility, and focused attention. It defines adaptability quotient (AQ) as the capacity to adapt to and thrive in changing environments. The document provides strategies for strengthening each skill, such as asking probing questions to improve change awareness, thinking differently to boost cognitive flexibility, and focusing on new situations to enhance attention. It encourages scanning the environment for unknowns, loosening constraints, and returning to zero to view things differently. The document was written by Sara Caldwell and Angela Dugan of 3Cloud Solutions and promotes their consulting services and resources including an AQ assessment test.
Measuring Up - Agile Team Metrics - DevUp 2022.pdf
The document discusses agile metrics used by Angela Dugan and Sara Caldwell of 3Cloud Solutions to measure team and product health. It introduces common metrics like work in progress, business value, and team health checks. It also cautions that metrics can be misused and should be viewed with care, using principles like considering multiple metrics, involving the team, and having surrounding conversations. The document aims to help readers understand how to properly use and interpret agile metrics.
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
VS Live 2021 VST09 agile team metrics Fast Focus - angela dugan
Are you still relying on the old standbys like percent complete, velocity, and burndown for monitoring the progress of your teams or projects? Those metrics may not be telling you what you think they are! In this fast-paced discussion, we'll talk about some of the pitfalls of commonly used metrics, and make the case for not so commonly used measures that give you the insights that you're really striving for.
You will learn:
Understand the connection between what you measure, your team performance, and product quality
Explanation of how many commonly used metrics will fail to tell you what you really need to know
Familiarity with uncommonly used metrics that will more reliably tell you how well your project or team are really doing
DevOps Summit 2015 Presentation: Continuous Testing At the Speed of DevOpsSailaja Tennati
Continuous delivery is frightening to enterprise IT managers who see each new private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructure software change potentially causing service outages or security concerns.
This presentation by Marc Hornbeek, first shared at the DevOps Summit 2015 in London, explains Spirent’s comprehensive Clear DevOps Solution to support:
- Rapid paced continuous testing without compromising coverage or service quality
- Orchestration of service deployments over physical and virtual infrastructures
- Best practices for integrating continuous testing into CI infrastructures
- How to use continuous testing analytics for deployment decisions
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
The document discusses implementing a DevOps culture at an organization. It covers defining standard tools and processes, educating employees, and establishing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. The key steps are to start with test-driven development, implement version control and code reviews, define roles and responsibilities, and set up build, deployment, and automated testing processes for development, QA, and production environments. Infrastructure should also be managed as code. Implementing these changes will help transition the organization to more agile, collaborative ways of working.
The document provides an overview of DevOps and related tools. It discusses DevOps concepts like bringing development and operations teams together, continuous delivery, and maintaining service stability through innovation. It also covers DevOps architecture, integration with cloud computing, security practices, types of DevOps tools, and some popular open source DevOps tools.
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
More and more organizations are turning to DevOps as a way of working together to improve the efficiency and quality of software delivery and start adding more value to the business. But what exactly is DevOps and what does it mean for you and your organization?
Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP Kendra Little to discover:
• What is DevOps and what benefits can it offer your organization?
• Who in your organization should be involved in DevOps?
• Why should your organization adopt DevOps?
• How can your organization start implementing DevOps?
This document summarizes a presentation about adopting DevOps practices to improve software delivery. It discusses how delivering software is challenging and costly, and that DevOps can help by improving collaboration between development and operations teams. A case study is presented from HM Health Solutions, who saw a 75% reduction in time spent fixing defects in testing and an 82% reduction in production after adopting DevOps practices like continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment. Tips are provided on getting started with an enterprise DevOps rollout.
Why do we need to have software testing happen in a continuous manner? This deck explains the importance of Continuous Integration and a case study of 24x7 Testing.
DevOps is a culture that improves collaboration between development and operations teams. It aims to speed up delivery of software and services according to business needs through automation. The three pillars of DevOps are infrastructure automation, continuous delivery, and reliability engineering. Automation improves productivity, reliability, and standardizes processes. This allows for faster, more cost effective and higher quality software delivery that better meets customer needs. DevOps builds trust between teams and increases business revenue through quicker feedback and turnaround.
The pursuit for the perfect synchrony between software development and IT operations is still ongoing, and striking the balance won’t happen any time soon. Understand and address these 5 common DevOps challenges to achieve a higher- functioning and collaborative organization.
Recently I was asked to explain what dev-ops is at a large enterprise software vendor undergoing transformation.
In these slides, I present the concepts, tools and mindset that drive DevOPS.
Continuous Delivery presents a compelling vision of builds that are automatically deployed and tested until ready for production.
Most teams aren't there yet. Some never want to go that far. Others want to push the envelope further.
This deck presents a model for scoring yourself on the continuum and examples of how companies can decide what parts of CD to adopt first, later and not at all.
Slides from this webcast: bit.ly/mTUTq4
Discussion of what DevOps is, why we need it, what sorts of shared tooling helps it, and how it fits in to an enterprise rollout.
This document provides an overview of DevOps success including:
1) High-performing IT organizations that practice DevOps are able to deploy code more frequently, have faster lead times, and higher change success rates, leading to increased reliability, productivity, and market growth.
2) Organizations should align incentives, form cross-functional teams, and automate workflows to reduce manual work and cycle times for better visibility and job satisfaction.
3) Key DevOps practices include continuous integration, version control, and continuous delivery across all technologies to reduce deployment pain and increase deployment frequency.
4) When starting a DevOps transformation, companies should establish a single source of truth, standardize processes, iterate on those processes, and
DevOps is becoming the latest revolution in the field of Information Technology. DevOps is an extension of agile principles which focuses of user's satisfaction. DevOps is a mix of Product Development, Quality Assurance, and System Operation. It brings down the silos between these departments to increase efficiency in the products of an enterprise.
Nowadays, more and more enterprises are embracing DevOps for its advantages. This presentation is just an introduction of DevOps. People who don't have a deep understanding of computer & IT concepts, can easily follow the commentary on DevOps in this presentation.
Demystifying DevOps for Ops - Including Findings from the 2015 State of DevOp...Puppet
DevOps represents a profound change from the way most IT departments have traditionally worked: from siloed teams and high-anxiety releases to everyone collaborating on uneventful and more frequent releases of higher-quality code.
It doesn't matter how large or small an organization is, or even whether it's historically slow moving or risk averse — there are ways to adopt DevOps sanely, and get measurable results in just weeks.
DevOps, sibling of Agile is born of the need to improve IT service delivery agility to the more stable environment.
DevOps movement emphasizes tearing the boundaries between makers (Development) & caretakers (Operations) of IT services/products.
How do measure our progress in a journey towards continuous integration? What are other people doing?
This presentation provides an measuring stick for CD Maturity and simple pattern for reviewing your current situation and deciding what to work on next.
The document summarizes a DevOps 2016 Summit agenda. It includes presentations on Kubernetes DevOps by Ray Tsang from Google, DevOps powered by containers by Glenn West from Red Hat, Docker by a speaker from MediaTek, using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana for log centralization and visualization, IoT Docker DevOps by Linker Network Software, shaking up culture with automation by a Yahoo Japan speaker, monitoring by a speaker from Gogolook, Chinese infrastructure by Sammy Lin, continuous integration/delivery by a speaker from Vpon, and what DevOps is through building on lean and agile practices.
Evolution of the DevOps Quality Management OfficeCapgemini
This document discusses the evolution of the DevOps Quality Management Office (QMO). It outlines the vision of continuous business-driven testing to reduce the time between development and operations. Key aspects of the DevOps-driven testing approach include continuous integration and delivery, lean techniques, standardization, test optimization, and establishing a hybrid test organization. The document also compares traditional vs DevOps testing approaches and provides examples of DevOps testing success levers. It proposes that the QMO can advise on developing a DevOps strategy and roadmap to improve throughput, availability, and time to market.
State of testing at Microsoft focuses on quality, collaboration throughout the development lifecycle. Microsoft provides tools to empower testing, feedback, and monitoring including test case management, manual and exploratory testing, browser-based testing, feedback management, quality dashboards, lab management, release management, and application insights. The tools are designed to put quality at the center and close the loop between development and operations.
This huge transformation for Visual Studio to enable the creation of any application is two-fold, on the server and on the client:
On the client side, Visual Studio 2015 provides a solution to create first-class applications for any device including iOS, Android and Windows.
On the server side, just like the rest of the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio is embracing Linux and provides a development environment for creating server applications that run on Linux.
We will also support major platforms in our ALM tooling – with features like cross-platform build and heterogenous release management offered by TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Online
What about “every developer”?
Last year, at our Connect() event we made a significant announcement targeted at individual developers, such as students, start-ups, small businesses.
With VS Community, eligible developers can use a full IDE, equivalent to the current VS Professional edition, for creating applications across the cloud and devices – for free!
But what about Enterprises?
With Visual Studio 2015, we are making it easier for enterprises to acquire and use Visual Studio, with a simpler model that will give developers working in organizations easier and more affordable access to Visual Studio. In this new model, we have introduced a new edition of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Enterprise.
What is DevOps? It’s a fairly hot term in today’s application development and operations space,but there are many different definitions as to what DevOps really is. Ultimately, DevOps is abouthow teams build software, deploy software and maintain it throughout its lifecycle. There is nosingle, right answer to the question, but there are a number of tools and strategies that can helpcustomers adopt a winning DevOps process that allows dev and operations teams to moreproductive together.In this session, the audience will learn what DevOps is at a high level, provide strategies for howto implement a DevOps process that fits their organization’s needs and how the MicrosoftApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling can help with this. As part of the session,attendees can expect to learn how to set up the Microsoft ALM stack for their teams and how touse it effectively in their software development lifecycle, regardless of the role each individual plays on the team.
Implementing Azure DevOps with your Testing ProjectRTTS
Implementing Azure DevOps With Your Testing Project
Are you challenged with different teams working on different platforms making it difficult to get insight into another team’s work?
Is your team seeking ways to automate the code deployments so you can spend more time developing new features and writing more tests, and spend less time deploying and running manual tests?
RTTS, a Microsoft Gold DevOps Partner, will take you through solving these challenges with Azure DevOps.
Tuesday, June 16th 2020 @11am ET
Session Overview
------------------------------------
During the webinar, we will walk you through the following process of utilizing Azure DevOps:
- The challenges that inspired the Azure DevOps solution that you may experience as well
- The strategy for implementing Azure Devops
- Solutions in our every day processes to increase our times efficiency and save time
- A demo of an Azure DevOps environment for testing teams
The see a recording of the webinar, please visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vIic3wxaS4
To learn more about RTTS, please visit:
https://www.rttsweb.com
Rational Quality Manager provides test management capabilities including test planning, execution, and analysis. It allows for collaboration between team members and provides dashboards and reports. RQM is part of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform and integrates with other Rational tools through the Jazz technology platform. RQM provides centralized management of test assets, environments, and utilization metrics to improve efficiency of the testing process.
Agile & DevOps - It's all about project successAdam Stephensen
The document provides information on DevOps practices and tools from Microsoft. It discusses how DevOps enables continuous delivery of value through integrating people, processes, and tools. Benefits of DevOps include more frequent and stable releases, lower change failure rates, and empowered development teams. The document provides examples of DevOps scenarios and recommends discussing solutions and migration plans with Microsoft.
Pete Marshall - casmadrid2015 - Continuous Delivery in Legacy EnvironmentsPeter Marshall
This document discusses practices for implementing continuous delivery in legacy software environments. It outlines key characteristics of continuous delivery like keeping software deployable throughout its lifecycle. It then provides examples of how one company transitioned their monolithic legacy application to a continuous delivery model by using techniques like the strangler pattern, refactoring to separate concerns, and restructuring their organization into cross-functional product teams. The document emphasizes establishing technical foundations, learning through the build-deploy-learn cycle, and focusing on delivering value to customers.
Nuevosoft Test Manager is a simplest and most effective test management solution in the industry. It helps improve testcase quality using innovative methods.
This document discusses DevOps, including what it is, why it matters, challenges, and the Microsoft DevOps platform. DevOps is the union of development and operations to enable continuous delivery of value to end users. It replaces silos and promotes collaboration and shared practices. DevOps enables faster delivery through automation, monitoring, and other practices like continuous integration and delivery. Challenges include culture change, automation, legacy systems, and skills. The Microsoft DevOps platform supports continuous delivery, continuous testing, release management, and integration with any language or platform through tools like Visual Studio Team Services.
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
Azure DevOps is a DevOps platform that provides tools to help teams plan work, collaborate on code development, and implement continuous delivery pipelines. It includes Azure Boards for tracking work items, Azure Repos for version control, Azure Pipelines for builds/releases, Azure Test Plans for testing, and Azure Artifacts for package management. These tools work together to help teams deliver value faster through practices like continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring. The document provides an overview of each tool and how they integrate as part of an end-to-end DevOps solution. It also shares customer stories about how companies like GEICO have been able to reduce release cycles and engage customers more through use of Azure DevOps.
Between spending hours (or days!) making sure you can code and test locally and the difficulties of keeping remote environments up to date, sometimes we find ourselves falling back on "It works on my machine!". Getting rid of the difficulties in making new development environments and maintaining testing infrastructure is really key to banishing the dreaded phrase. In this session, we'll take you through some of the recent tools and techs that will not only make your life easier but will mean you never have to say "works on my machine" ever again.
DevOps for the Mainframe aims to leverage continuous integration, cloud technologies, and beyond to deliver z/OS applications. The document discusses how DevOps principles can help enable rapid evolution of deployed z/OS services by reducing risk, decreasing costs, and improving quality. It provides examples of how tools from IBM can help implement a continuous delivery pipeline for mainframe development and testing that incorporates automated testing, configuration, and deployment.
Azure Devops provides a set of cloud DevOps services that allow enterprises to deliver business outcomes, from an idea to production-level code. Azure Devops works for any language, any cloud, and any platform.
We deliver results through our smart exam architecture and agile development methodology. Our architecture is designed for scale, reliability and security and supports AWS best practices. We use agile methods like Kanban boards and Git version control. Our code meets standards and we use tools like HelpnDoc for documentation. We implement test database designs and have experience with large-scale exam applications.
QA with Microsoft Test Manager and Lab ManagementRofiqi Setiawan
Plan, manage, and execute tests with Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Management in Visual Studio 2013 which will make it easier to conduct manual and automated testing across a variety of environments. This presentation covers the new exploratory testing approach offered by Microsoft Test Manager; the simplified setup and administration of Lab Management environments; and some of the other fit-and-finish features across the testing scenario.
Improving The Software Development Lifecycle With Visual Studio Team Systemmatthewphillips
The document discusses improving the software development lifecycle with Visual Studio Team System. It introduces Visual Studio Team System as an application lifecycle management solution that increases project transparency, facilitates team collaboration, and improves software quality. It then provides examples of extending Visual Studio Team System, including integrating it with Project Server for project management, adding continuous integration capabilities, and customizing processes. It concludes with tips for adopting Visual Studio Team System such as determining goals, developing a roadmap, and addressing potential resistance to changes.
Implementing enterprise DevOps for a large-scale organization is a challenge faced by many companies. Understand all the basics, challenges, strategies, tips, principles, best practices, and so much more you need to know for leveraging DevOps Successfully.
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Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solving and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to happier people delivering better products. Without effective feedback, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! In my experience, people are generally not confident in their feedback skills. This makes feedback feel risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing and so then they give no feedback at all.
Feedback Doesn't Have to Suck. In this fast-paced 20 minute session focused on supercharging your feedback skills, I will help you get a good foothold on where to start. We’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is, attributes of high-quality feedback, and some “tips and tricks” to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me both as a manager and a team member. You’ll be a feedback champion before you know it!
VS Liv MSHQ 2022 - Measuring Up! How To Choose Agile Metrics - Dugan.pdfAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense to you, that felt counterproductive to your or the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect in a sane fashion? Oftentimes, I find that metrics being collected are ones that are easy to collect and report on but are not necessarily the ones that will help the team learn and improve.
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have taken the lead. Metrics have lagged a bit and often rely on very waterfall-style milestones and phase-gates to determine a team's effectiveness. In the spirit of continuous improvement, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
This document discusses increasing adaptability through developing three skills: change awareness, cognitive flexibility, and focused attention. It defines adaptability quotient (AQ) as the capacity to adapt to and thrive in changing environments. The document provides strategies for strengthening each skill, such as asking probing questions to improve change awareness, thinking differently to boost cognitive flexibility, and focusing on new situations to enhance attention. It encourages scanning the environment for unknowns, loosening constraints, and returning to zero to view things differently. The document was written by Sara Caldwell and Angela Dugan of 3Cloud Solutions and promotes their consulting services and resources including an AQ assessment test.
Measuring Up - Agile Team Metrics - DevUp 2022.pdfAngela Dugan
The document discusses agile metrics used by Angela Dugan and Sara Caldwell of 3Cloud Solutions to measure team and product health. It introduces common metrics like work in progress, business value, and team health checks. It also cautions that metrics can be misused and should be viewed with care, using principles like considering multiple metrics, involving the team, and having surrounding conversations. The document aims to help readers understand how to properly use and interpret agile metrics.
VS Live 2021 Orlando - vst14 feedback skillsAngela Dugan
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
VS Live 2021 VST09 agile team metrics Fast Focus - angela duganAngela Dugan
Are you still relying on the old standbys like percent complete, velocity, and burndown for monitoring the progress of your teams or projects? Those metrics may not be telling you what you think they are! In this fast-paced discussion, we'll talk about some of the pitfalls of commonly used metrics, and make the case for not so commonly used measures that give you the insights that you're really striving for.
You will learn:
Understand the connection between what you measure, your team performance, and product quality
Explanation of how many commonly used metrics will fail to tell you what you really need to know
Familiarity with uncommonly used metrics that will more reliably tell you how well your project or team are really doing
THAT Conference 2021 - Level up your Feedback GameAngela Dugan
Feedback makes the world go around, and let’s be honest, many of us feel pretty unskilled at feedback - both at giving and receiving. As technologists, we thrive on experimenting, learning, and adjusting, which we cannot do without the input and perspectives of others around us.
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, if feedback is truly a “gift”, what’s the deal? Why isn’t everyone wholeheartedly and excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time? In my experience, feedback isn’t happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing. Feedback is also something we’re not trained to do well if at all. Bad practices like the “feedback sh*t sandwich” is still common practice. It may even feel like a personal and professional bear trap! In this session, we’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We’ll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference.
APLN 2021 - Adaptability Quotient keynote - Sara Caldwell and Angela DuganAngela Dugan
This document discusses increasing adaptability. It begins by introducing the concepts of intellectual quotient, emotional quotient, and adaptability quotient. It then provides tips for improving adaptability, such as communicating with one's environment, considering new ideas, and focusing on new situations while letting go of old ones. Steps are outlined for becoming more adaptative, like popping one's bubble, unlearning and relearning, cognitively flexing, and reflecting on and recognizing change. The document encourages reaching out to the sponsors for help experiencing change and provides references.
Agile midwest 2019 tap, tap, tap communicationAngela Dugan
The document discusses the importance of open communication, vulnerability, and feedback for effective teamwork. It notes that communicating openly and honestly, and speaking from a place of vulnerability are both very difficult but necessary to avoid struggles. It emphasizes practicing radical candor when giving feedback to others.
That conference tap, tap, tap communicationAngela Dugan
In the 20 or so years since I joined the tech community, I moved from an attitude of "please leave me alone in my cube to code and whatever you do don't talk to me!" to well, giving talks on the importance of communication in the software world. The tools and techniques I've come to know and love have changed over time, but a few things have remained constant.
1) Communicating openly and honestly at all times is HARD
2) Speaking from a place of vulnerability is RIDICULOUSLY HARD
3) Without 1 and 2 you're going to really struggle to be an effective and happy member of ANY software team
OK, there's a 4th thing.
4) The days of working alone in your cube like a hermit are largely over for software folks. It really doesn't have to suck. I swear it doesn’t.
During my brief time with you, I’m going to rumble with some touch topics and share some of my own embarrassing and enlightening stumbles. It will include things like delivering “bad news” to your client/manager/team and feeling good about it, managing conflict with others in healthy and productive ways, and delivering feedback without feeling like you (or the receiver) will vomit. These things are all very possible, and not that hard to master once you have some key tools and insights in your tool belt.
Agile days chicago 2018 - how do you measure up?Angela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team’s effectiveness, or the organization’s effectiveness? Did those metrics seem impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, and focused on individual “productivity”. How do we collect data that drives continuous improvement and promotes an open and trust-filled environment. How does that change at scale?
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices have clearly taken the lead. This session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect across teams and organizations. We’ll dig into metrics that are relevant, interesting, AND useful, and discuss some of the common traps.
VS Live Chicago 2018 - how do you measure upAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter.
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures you can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how you can use them to help your teams continuously improve.
Chicago Code Camp 2018 - Building strong teamsAngela Dugan
Building the “perfect team” seems like an impossible task these days. Can a truly “cross-functional” team even be built? How do you get introverts and extroverts (yes, they DO exist in IT) to play nice? Seems like these days you practically need a degree in psychology to get this right. But you don’t.
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with my clients and my company to develop high functioning teams. I’ve found that regardless of focus (software development, marketing, sales), there are patterns to what makes teams successful, and what can hold them back from greatness.
In this talk, I’ll cover a couple of tools for understanding the needs and strengths of your individual team members, identifying strength gaps, and action items for creating a happy and well-balanced team that can get it done!
Dev up 2017 - Half Day Workshop: Getting your agile team unstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a death march and no one is participating any more, or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or you have a QA team that feels buried by your fast-paced development team. These situations are unfortunately very common, and they lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there's a better way! As an agile coach and consultant, I help software organizations stop the bleeding, mature their process, and develop into high functioning agile teams. And to be clear, I've made mistakes as well! I'd like to share with the audience my own experiences, including strategies that succeeded and failed in hopes of leading them down the path to getting their own teams "unstuck". I'll also give attendees an opportunity to share their own challenges, so that we can leverage those strategies to give them ideas for blasting through their own roadblocks.
Learning points:
Recognizing when your process, product, or people have gone off the rails by identifying "smells"
Review some tools and strategies that teams can leverage when they need a cognitive reset to get them back on track
How to apply tools and strategies in your own unique environments.
The document discusses metrics for software development teams. It notes that while measurement can improve performance, metrics may become targets and lose value. Common metrics like velocity and burndown can be gamed and are lagging indicators. Better metrics focus on work in progress, lead time, cycle time and flow. The author advocates measuring many things to understand impacts and causes of change.
That conference 2017 - Getting your Agile Team UnstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore, your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These are the kinds of issues I see all of the time. They lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there’s a better way!
As an agile coach and consultant, I have worked with dozens of teams to stop the bleeding, strengthen their relationships, mature their processes, and help them grow into high functioning agile machines. And to be clear, I’ve made mistakes as well! I’d like to share with the audience my own experiences and lessons-learned, including both what succeeded and what failed in hopes to lead you down the path to getting your own team “unstuck”.
Chicago Coders Conference 2017 - Metrics that matterAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team’s effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter. When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
Overview of ERP - Mechlin Technologies.pptxMitchell Marsh
This PowerPoint presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. It covers the fundamental concepts, benefits, and key functionalities of ERP software, illustrating how it integrates various business processes into a unified system. From finance and HR to supply chain and customer relationship management, ERP facilitates efficient data management and decision-making across organizations. Whether you're new to ERP or looking to deepen your understanding, this presentation offers valuable insights into leveraging ERP for business success.
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Your project needs and long-term objectives will ultimately choose which of React Native and Flutter to use. For applications using JavaScript and current web technologies in particular, React Native is a mature and trustworthy choice. For projects that value performance and customizability across many platforms, Flutter, on the other hand, provides outstanding performance and a unified UI development experience.
A Comparative Analysis of Functional and Non-Functional Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
A robust software testing strategy encompassing functional and non-functional testing is fundamental for development teams. These twin pillars are essential for ensuring the success of your applications. But why are they so critical?
Functional testing rigorously examines the application's processes against predefined requirements, ensuring they align seamlessly. Conversely, non-functional testing evaluates performance and reliability under load, enhancing the end-user experience.
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Our world runs on software. It governs all major aspects of our life. It is an enabler for research and innovation, and is critical for business competitivity. Traditional software engineering techniques have achieved high effectiveness, but still may fall short on delivering software at the accelerated pace and with the increasing quality that future scenarios will require.
To attack this issue, some software paradigms raise the automation of software development via higher levels of abstraction through domain-specific languages (e.g., in model-driven engineering) and empowering non-professional developers with the possibility to build their own software (e.g., in low-code development approaches). In a software-demanding world, this is an attractive possibility, and perhaps -- paraphrasing Andy Warhol -- "in the future, everyone will be a developer for 15 minutes". However, to make this possible, methods are required to tweak languages to their context of use (crucial given the diversity of backgrounds and purposes), and the assistance to developers throughout the development process (especially critical for non-professionals).
In this keynote talk at ICSOFT'2024 I presented enabling techniques for this vision, supporting the creation of families of domain-specific languages, their adaptation to the usage context; and the augmentation of low-code environments with assistants and recommender systems to guide developers (professional or not) in the development process.
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Cultural Shifts: Embracing DevOps for Organizational Transformation
Visual Studio ALM and DevOps Tools Walkthrough
1. M i c r o s o f t V i s u a l S t u d i o T o o l s
ALM and DevOps Enablement for Your Entire Team
Angela Dugan
Principal Consultant and ALM Practice Manager
3. Agenda
What big initiatives are you hoping to get off the
ground this year?
Are you confident your organization can deliver?
What goals/challenges are you trying to address?
What collaboration/automation tools are you using?
TFS / VSTS Walkthrough
[email protected] Twitter: @OakParkGirl
4. Open, flexible and extensible
cross-platform DevOps tools
More agility and flexibility for
continuous value delivery
Unlocks a greater ecosystem and
works with what you already use
7. Plan & Track Work
Enterprise collaboration Agile planning tools
Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server give you the tools
you need to effectively create, manage and deliver against your backlog.
Dashboards & charts
9. AGILE PORTFOLIO AS WORK ITEMS
Epic – large scale initiatives that define
strategy and roadmap
Feature – high level functional business
requirement
User Story – requirement capturing the role,
functionality, and value.
Task – work the team does to fulfill a Story.
Feature
User Story
Task
18. Source Code Management
Flexible version control Collaborate on code
VSTS and TFS provide unparalleled flexibility for your evolving codebase.
All your code is linked directly to the story, bug, or task driving the work.
Any IDE, any code
21. Quality Management
Test planning
and tracking
Manual and
exploratory testing
A toolset optimized for QA professionals, giving them flexibility in how they
work while at the same time keeping them in sync with the rest of the team.
Performance and
load testing
23. Test Case
Management
Streamline quality
Take advantage of a toolset optimized for the
needs of testers, giving them flexibility in how
they work while at the same time keeping them
in sync with the rest of the team
Improved web-based Test Case Management
helps testers author, manage and execute test
cases using any modern web browser
Microsoft Test Manager further empowers your
testers by giving them comprehensive tools for
automated and manual testing in a desktop
application optimized for the needs of today’s
agile QA professional
24. Manual Testing
Run, record, play back
Capture detailed records of steps performed,
behaviors observed, and the status of each test
step with the fully-instrumented and configurable
Test Runner. Pause testing at any time to report
a bug, even if it’s not directly related to the
current test case
High-fidelity defect reports go directly to the
development team, including all the technical
data needed to reproduce and resolve the error
quickly. Record tests for later playback to speed
up test sessions and enable test automation
26. Exploratory
Testing
Testing, super-charged
Run tests without a pre-defined list of test cases
and test steps with exploratory testing. Create
action recordings, capture rich comments and
screenshots and quickly report bugs
Testers can easily create test cases, complete
with test steps, from exploratory test recordings
which can then be added to test plans and
suites for future testing activities
Simultaneous test design and execution saves
time and effort and allows testers to create
real-world test scenarios, fast
30. Performance
Testing
Know your limits
Visual Studio makes integrating Load Testing
into your development process easy and will
help you avoid nasty surprises in production
Whether those surprises are caused by world-
wide distribution, the scale of your customer
base or problems that only manifest in multi-
day runs – Visual Studio Load Testing will give
you the analytics to solve those problems
before you deploy
32. Cross-platform Build
Cross-platform build for
iOS, Java and Android
Flexible, extensible and
customizable builds
No matter what tools you use or what language you prefer - Team Foundation
Build builds your app your way, for your platforms. Just open your browser!
Cloud, hybrid or on-
premises infrastructure
34. Continuous Integration (CI) – a DevOps practice
Issues
• Delivery delays
• Non-working/low-quality code
• Incomplete solutions
• Rework
Value
• Frequent integration
• Higher quality
• Repeatability
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DEV
35. Cloud
Load Testing
Integration testing
environment
Automated functional
testing environment
3
Pre-production
environment
Staging
environmen
t
Monitor + Learn
When all tests pass, the build is deployed
to testing environments for each
stage in the release process …
Release
36. Continuous Delivery (CD) – a DevOps practice
Issues
• Slow delivery cadence
• Limited predictability when deploying
• Complexity when deploying
Value
• Consistency
• Accelerated deployment
• Repeatability
• Human error reductionDEV
37. Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration Release Management
Streamline and automate the workflow between development and IT Ops
and deliver higher quality software more frequently with less risk.
Continuous Quality
38. Release
Management
Ship better apps, faster
Visual Studio Release Management makes it easy to
automate deployment and testing of your applications
in multiple environments. Teams can create
release definitions and automate deployment in
repeatable, reliable ways while tracking simultaneous
in-flight releases. Easily incorporate automated
functional tests or manual approvals in a release
definition to automate the release process all the way
to production.
39. Release Management
RM is for you if:
You need to deploy apps
regularly to any platform
You use a Continuous
Integration (CI) system
You need to track the progress
of releases
You need control of the
deployments
You need audit history for all
releases and their deployments
40. Infrastructure as code (IAC) – a DevOps practice
DEV OPS
Value
• Optimize resources
• Accelerate delivery
Measure
• Deployment rate
• MTTR
41. Cloud Dev/Test
environments
Agile, flexible, scalable
React faster to business changes and keep up with
dev and test infrastructure demands. Reduce
effort and lower cost for dev and test infrastructure
resources. Get the compute, storage, and network
resources you need, in minutes instead of hours or
days. Test applications in a ‘production-like’
environment to uncover bugs and issues earlier in
the development cycle.
42. 4
Monitor
Feedback
Plan the next iteration
When all tests pass, the build is deployed to testing environments for
each stage in the release process
Monitor + Learn
43. Application Insights
Track usage and performance
Get a 360° view of your app that includes
availability, performance and user behavior. Use a
powerful and easy-to-use experience to track and
improve the success of your application. Analyze data
across dimensions and make informed decisions
about your product’s future.
45. Extend, Customize & Integrate
Open platform Extensions
Customize and extend the Visual Studio platform and create the perfect
development environment that you'll love as much as your code.
Visual Studio
Marketplace
55. Purchase options
Hosted by Microsoft
Buy Visual Studio Team Services
Hosted in your data center
Buy Team Foundation Server
Team collaboration serverCloud services for teams
56. Feature comparison
Visual Studio Team Services Team Foundation Server
Plan & Track Work ■ ■
Source Code Management ■ ■
Package Management ■ ■
Test Management ■ ■
Cross-Platform Build ■ ■
Continuous Deployment ■ ■
Release Management ■ ■
Application Telemetry Application Insights/HockeyApp System Center/PreEmptive Analytics
Reporting Limited ■
Extend, Customize & Integrate ■ ■
Team Structure 1 Collection – Unlimited Projects/Teams Unlimited Collections/Projects/Teams
Identity & Permissions
Azure Active Directory
Microsoft accounts (formerly Live ID)
Active Directory Integration
Languages English Only Multilanguage Support
Data Location US, Europe, Australia DCs - India (coming soon) Data Stored On Premises
Backup/Data Migration Limited support, TFS Import (coming soon) Backup/Restore Tools Available
Support Phone, Online and Forums, Engineering Excellence
Phone, Online, Forums, Microsoft Premier
Support
Updates
Frequent Updates (~3 weeks)
Automatically Upgraded
Periodic Updates (~3 or 4 months)
Planning Required
57. Feature comparison
Visual Studio Team Services Team Foundation Server
Version Control
Team Foundation Version Control ■ ■
Distributed Version Control with Git ■ ■
Agile Planning & Collaboration
Scrum, Agile, CMMI ■ ■
Custom Process Templates & WIT Customization Limited ■
Work Item Tagging, Kanban Board, Feedback ■ ■
SharePoint, Project Server, System Center
Integration
■
Build
Automated Builds On-Premises with CI Support for hybrid scenarios ■
Hosted Build Service with Continuous Integration ■
Application/Platform Support
Many Microsoft platforms and growing
(Build Server Software)
Fully customizable
Continuous Deployment to Azure ■ ■
Testing
Test Case Management ■ ■
Cloud-Based Load Testing Service ■
Reporting
Work Item Queries and Favorites
Work Item Charting, Power BI
Work Item Queries and Favorites/Work Item
Charting/Business Intelligence Warehouse
58. Purchasing Visual Studio Team Services
Completely free for small teams
FREE: 5 users + unlimited stakeholders
FREE: 240 minutes cloud build time/month
FREE: 20k virtual user minutes for load testing/month
Pricing for additional team members
No. of
users: 5 10 20 50 100 200 1000
Cost per
month: FREE $30 $110 $350 $750 $1,150
$4,35
0
Included for Visual Studio subscribers
Users with the following subscriptions can be
added to an unlimited number of VSTS accounts
for free, with “Basic” feature access:
• Visual Studio Enterprise - annual
• Visual Studio Enterprise - monthly
• Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN - including
subscriptions offered through BizSpark and the
Microsoft Partner Network
• Visual Studio Professional - annual
• Visual Studio Professional - monthly
• Visual Studio Professional with MSDN
• Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN
• MSDN Platforms
59. Additional services per VSTS account
Cloud Build
FREE: 240 minutes/month of build on a Hosted
Agent with a max runtime of 30 mins for a single
build job
FREE: 1 Private Agent (new build system) or
XAML controller (legacy build system), for
running builds through your own server
THEREAFTER:
Hosted Agents: $40/month (upgrades the free
agent to unlimited build time and increases the
max runtime to 360 mins)
Additional Private Agents: $15/month
Cloud-Based Load Testing*
* Requires Visual Studio Enterprise
- Services purchased via Microsoft Azure based on actual usage
- Additional services are accessible to all users on the account and shared among them
- Build time is actual computing time required to run the build, and does not
include queuing time (if any)
- Load test runs specify the number of virtual users and duration in minutes
Virtual users x minutes = virtual user minutes (VUM)
FREE: 20,000 virtual user minutes per month
THEREAFTER:
$0.004/virtual user minute for 20,001-2M VUM
$0.002/VUM for 2,000,001-10M VUM
$0.001/VUM for usage above 10M VUM/month
60. Completely free for individuals and small teams Included for Visual Studio subscribers
Pricing for additional team members
Users with the following subscriptions get
both a Team Foundation Server license and a
Team Foundation Server User CAL:
• Visual Studio Enterprise - annual
• Visual Studio Enterprise - monthly
• Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN - including
subscriptions offered through BizSpark and the
Microsoft Partner Network
• Visual Studio Professional - annual
• Visual Studio Professional - monthly
• Visual Studio Professional with MSDN
• Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN
• MSDN Platforms
With Team Foundation Server, you license the
server and the users connecting to the server.
Users who only need access to work items are
free, and other users need a user CAL (client
access license) for access to most features in
Team Foundation Server.
Purchasing Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server Express is free for
individual developers and small teams of five or
less and can easily be installed on a personal
desktop or laptop without a dedicated server.
61. Why Consider VSTS?
Simplified server management.
Simplified administration.
Immediate access to the latest and greatest features.
Improved connectivity with remote sites.
A transition from capital expenditures (servers and the like) to
operational expenditures (subscriptions).
MSDN subscribers receive both TFS CAL and VSTS usage rights.
Options available for non-developers who need access
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