Working with TFS 2015 Dev and QA focused

Name: Working with TFS 2015 Dev and QA focused
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Learn Team Foundation Server 2015 from ground up

Created byKarthik KK

Last updated 4/2016

English

What you'll learn

Understand what Team Foundation Server 2015 is
Install and Configure TFS 2015 in their local environment
Work with TFS 2015 build system
Work with TFS 2015 vNext build definition

Course content

3 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 54m total length

Introduction3:13
Explore the basics of Team Foundation Server 2015 for developers and QA, covering installation, creating projects and collections, work items, permissions, and build definition basics.
Introduction to TFS 20156:42
Discover how Team Foundation Server unifies version control, requirements, backlog items, stories, tasks, test cases, and bugs with SQL Server and Visual Studio for end-to-end collaboration.
Introduction to TFS 2015 (Contd)7:39
Explore how Team Foundation Server 2015 enhances continuous integration and automated build management with portal-based definitions. It also enables cross-platform testing and lab management for remote virtual machines.

Part 3 -- Installing and Configuring TFS 201513:56
Install and configure Team Foundation Server 2015 on Windows Server, review prerequisites, connect to SQL Server, set up basic services, and create a team project.
Part 4 -- Understanding & creating Team project and collection in TFS11:38
Create your first team project and collection in TFS 2015 using Visual Studio 2015, connecting via Team Explorer, selecting the Scrum process template, and enabling Team Foundation Version Control.
Part 5 -- First Check-In and Check-out with TFS 201513:25
Learn to perform check-in and check-out with TFS 2015 using Team Explorer, including workspace mapping and adding files to source control. Track changes with pending changes, changesets, and version comparisons.
Part6 -- Introduction to TFS 2015 Web6:52
Explore the Team Foundation Server 2015 web interface for planning and tracking projects. Access the web portal to manage collections, work items, test runs, code, and permissions.
Part 7 -- Roles and Permissions in TFS 201515:33
Learn to manage roles and permissions in TFS 2015 through access level management, membership management, and promotion management, granting stakeholder, basic, or advanced access with object-level controls.
Part 8 -- Understanding and creating work items in TFS (Part A)15:10
Create and manage work items in Team Foundation Server, including product backlog items and tasks, from Team Explorer or the web portal. Use queries to view PBIs and their tasks.
Part 9 -- Understanding and creating work items in TFS (Part B)9:57
Explore how to create and link work items in TFS, including adding child items, linking to changesets, mapping to change lists, and editing items in Excel sheets.
Part 10 -- Creating Work Items in TFS Web 20157:41
learn how to create and map work items in tfs 2015 web, including pbi and tasks, and view them in boards and sprints.

Part 11 -- Understanding builds in TFS 201510:23
Understand Team Foundation Server 2015 builds and continuous integration, including source synchronization, compiling, and unit testing. Note auditing of build definitions and the shift from XML definitions to next-gen definitions.
Part 12 -- Setting environment ready for XAML build in TFS5:26
Set up a Team Foundation Server 2015 build environment by creating a controller, enabling its service, and registering agents. Then connect agents to the controller and configure XML build configuration.
Part 13 -- Creating XAML build definition and executing in TFS 201515:09
Create and configure a XAML build definition in TFS 2015, set triggers, source settings, and run the build to view artifacts and results.
Part14 -- Installing Agent pool and Queue for vNext build in TFS 201512:37
Configure TFS 2015 vNext builds by creating agent pools and queues, installing agents, and setting capabilities and demands, while noting integration with legacy XML definitions.
Part15-- Creating and executing build definition in vNext with TFS 201512:59
Create and execute a vNext build definition in TFS 2015, using the new cross-platform build system, templates, and agent pools to configure steps, triggers, tests, and artifact publishing.
Part16 -- Running Unit Test from build definition with TFS 20156:17
Run unit tests from a build definition in tfs 2015 using visual studio, observe test results including failures and successes, and publish artifacts for review.

Requirements

Basic understanding of CI
Basic understanding of visual studio IDE

Description

Working with TFS 2015 Dev and QA focused course is designed in such a way that anyone with Zero knowledge in TFS can start learning it and understand how powerful and robust TFS is compared to any other tool available in market.

Team Foundation Server provides a set of collaboration tools that work with your existing IDE or editor, so your team can work effectively on software projects of all shapes and sizes

TFS is more of a

Version control system
Requirement management system
Project Management system
Automated build management system
Testing and release management system
All, the above is otherwise called as Application Lifecycle Management System

With vNext build definition introduced in Team foundation server 2015, it is now much easier to create build definition steps via GUI interface in TFS 2015 web compared to XAML build definition used in previous versions of TFS.

Who this course is for:

This course is designed for both QA and Dev
This course is also much suited for Dev Ops

Working with TFS 2015 Dev and QA focused

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Course content

Agenda and Introduction3 lectures • 18min

Installing, Configuring and Working with TFS 20158 lectures • 1hr 34min

TFS 2015 Build System6 lectures • 1hr 3min

Requirements

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