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Live architecture dependency validation in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16
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In the past year, you told us that you considered removing unwanted dependencies to be an important part of managing your technical debt. The Layer designer enables you to validate architectural dependencies in your Visual Studio solutions. It first shipped in Visual Studio 2010, and is now part of Visual Studio Enterprise. But the experience ...

How we work and lessons we’ve learned building Team Services and TFS

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
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Here are two recent presentations that discuss the evolution of our team from an on-premises software team to a DevOps services team. The first one is a presentation by Matt Manela and Jose Rady Allende at Microsoft Ignite last week. Matt is the engineering manager and Jose the PM for one of the feature teams building the Agile features in ...

Feature flags: How we control exposure in VS Team Services

October 4, 2016 Oct 4, 2016 10/4/16
Buck Hodges
One question that I often get from customers is how we manage exposing features in the service. Features may not be complete or need to be revealed at a particular time. We may want to get early feedback. With the team working in master and deploying every three-week sprint, let’s take a look at how we do this for Team Services. Goals Our ...

Work Item Visualization is one of many productivity extensions on the marketplace

October 1, 2016 Oct 1, 2016 10/1/16
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce the latest update of the Work Item Visualization extension. It’s one of our first productivity extensions, enabling you to easily visualize work item relationships and traceability from requirements to code, to test cases, to releases. The update contains tons of bug fixes and these new features: annotations [1...

Cloud-load testing service is hyper-scale ready: lessons from generating 1M concurrent user load

September 30, 2016 Sep 30, 2016 09/30/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Every now and then we hear of a business-critical app failing during major promotional or seasonal events such as holiday sales. More often than not it turns out that the app is not ready for the massive demand created on such occasions - causing the servers to fail and resulting in dissatisfied customers and lost opportunity. To ensure that ...

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use

September 28, 2016 Sep 28, 2016 09/28/16
Buck Hodges
We have now released TFS "15" RC2. We are using it in production internally. It is fully supported for production use. You can upgrade from TFS 2012 or newer to RC2. You can also upgrade the RC1 release to RC2, and you will be able to upgrade from RC2 to RTM (that should be a very fast upgrade, since there will be very few changes between RC2 ...

Get the most out of your PRs with Branch Policies

September 28, 2016 Sep 28, 2016 09/28/16
Matthew Mitrik (MS)
Pull requests have been widely accepted as a best practice for teams using Git to peer-review code changes. Peer reviews are a great practice for discussing how to improve code and for spreading knowledge about a codebase amongst team members. Contrary to popular belief, code reviews are not particularly good at finding bugs even if that's ...

Run cloud-based load tests using your own machines (a.k.a. Bring your own subscription)

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
When you run a cloud-based load test, the load testing service automatically provisions the necessary machines (load agents) for generating the load to your application. Once the load test run has completed, these resources are torn down. This works well for the most part for a large set of customers. However, some customers want to be able to...

Pricing for Release Management in TFS “15”

September 26, 2016 Sep 26, 2016 09/26/16
Vijay Machiraju
[Update on  Nov 16, 2016] This article is now outdated. With the RTM version of TFS 2017, we have the final pricing model for Release Management. For more information, see our official documentation. Since the new version of Release Management was introduced in TFS 2015 Update 2, it has been in "trial mode". Any user with Basic access level ...

Using physical boards alongside your Team Services/TFS Kanban and Taskboards – Agile Cards by Spartez

September 21, 2016 Sep 21, 2016 09/21/16
Ayushman Jain
Agile transformation and ongoing process maintenance are often not as easy as they would seem. Despite the very open nature of Agile Manifesto it is important to maintain consistency between selected methods and the tools. This may become increasingly difficult with the growth of organisations, complexity of projects and internal team ...