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March 2017 - Page 2 of 2 - Azure DevOps Blog

How we are improving notifications in Team Services

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17
Will Smythe
Good communication is an essential ingredient to any successful development project. Whether the team is small or large, keeping everyone on the same page and informed as the project progresses helps reduce last minute surprises and ensures a smoother process overall. Notifications, whether they arrive via email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, or ...

Agent-based deployment in Release Management

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17
Roopesh Nair
Release Management now supports robust in-the-box multi-machine deployment. You can now orchestrate  deployments across multiple machines, perform rolling updates while ensuring high availability of the application throughout. Agent based deployment capability relies on the same build and deployment agents. However, unlike the current ...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 1

March 2, 2017 Mar 2, 2017 03/2/17
Pratap Lakshman
Continuous Testing in DevOps In older testing strategies, large software changes were tested as a complete product after a so called "release to QA", running almost all tests just before release. We know the downsides to that. On the other hand, DevOps is all about a fast development to delivery pipeline and continuous delivery of value. ...

Visual Studio Marketplace – Publisher Pivot

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17
Harish Kumar Agarwal
Visual Studio Marketplace is the exclusive destination for discovering extensions for Visual Studio IDE, Team Services and Code, and purchasing subscriptions. While consumers of the Marketplace benefit greatly from it, we want our publishers to have a great experience too. After all, it is they who make the Marketplace rich with real world ...