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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.16

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Willy-P. Schaub
Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward and I (Willy) were chatting recently about all the great news posts that Greg pulls together for the Radio TFS podcast and what a shame it was that so many of them ended up on the cutting room floor. So instead we thought that instead it would be good to do a round-up on our blog from time to time - hope you find ...

View tags for git repositories

June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Git repositories now show tags that allow you to mark important points in your repo's history. Now you can easily bookmark a specific commit in your git repository to compare to other commits in the future. In this post, I will talk about how you can easily manage following git tag related tasks in VSTS : Create a tag...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 3

June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
Pratap Lakshman
At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods - the source file in which those methods reside are the dynamic dependencies that get tracked. So, the mapping ends up like the following: and so on...

Mobile work item form general availability

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Christopher Schleiden [MSFT]
We are very excited to announce the general availability of the mobile work item form and the mobile My work items page in Visual Studio Team Services. We now have a full end-to-end experience to find work items that matter to you, and view and edit them using a form optimized for mobile devices. Mobile work item form About five months ago ...

Building and Deploying a Java Application to Oracle WebLogic Server Running in Azure VM with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Emin Askerov
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java application development. Visual Studio ALM Blog has a lot of useful and helpful resources describing how to build and deploy your Java application and ...

Turn your infrastructure into code with Chef, and update your Assembly information with May’s Team Services Extensions Roundup

May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017 05/31/17
Joe Bourne
May is coming to a close, and we've had more Team Services accounts installing extensions than any month since we launched the Marketplace. The ecosystem momentum we've seen this year is strong, and there are still so many exciting integration opportunities out there to go enable. For this roundup I've got two great extensions, and to start us...

Beyond GVFS: more details on optimizing Git for large repositories

May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017 05/30/17
Edward Thomson
Over the last few years, Microsoft has been moving the entire company to a modern engineering system built on Visual Studio Team Services and using Git as our version control system.  For many of the projects within Microsoft, this is no problem, since: the Git homepage tell us: Git was built to work on the Linux kernel, meaning that it has...

Personalize what notifications you receive for releases

May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 05/27/17
Shashank Bansal
Note: If you do not see the preview feature on your account, kindly leave a comment to this blog with your team services account name. There are multiple stakeholders for a release. Whether the team is small or large, keeping the right stakeholders informed about how releases are progressing and what actions are required. Notifications, ...

New Release Definition Editor in Team Services

May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17
Saumya Venkataraman [MSFT]
Have you ever struggled to create a mental model of how the deployments to your environments would progress? We are introducing the pipeline view for your release definitions that will show how your deployments flow. Approvals, environment and deployment settings are now in-context and easily configurable. The new release definition editor ...