Showing results for September 2019 - Azure DevOps Blog

How is our Feature progressing? As simple and common as this question is, it’s a hard one to answer. Especially if your Feature is complex and is composed of multiple User Stories and Tasks. With Sprint 157 Update you will be able to answer this using Rollup in Azure Boards backlog view. What is rollup? Rollup is an aggregation displayed on a pa...

Whether or not you are an optimist, many jobs in technology teach you to anticipate and protect against the worst-case scenario. In this week's community stories, we learn more about the importance of automated testing and the perils of edge cases in Site Reliability Engineering. Let's get started!

The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a community operated service that provisions template-based projects inside your Azure DevOps organization. Today we've published the source code for Demo Generator under the MIT License and welcome community participation. We've also enabled the ability to generate and use your own custom templates!

Sprint 157 has just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the cool features in the release notes. This post covers just some of the features that you can start using today.

Do tools facilitate the adoption of DevOps culture, or is it the other way around? How important are the technical tools in helping us deliver value to our end-users with higher quality and less friction?

The success of any agile team is built on the shoulders of its individuals and their ability to work as a team. Those individuals need to feel safe to express their ideas and thoughts without other members passing judgement on each other. For every great idea your team has, there are dozens of other ideas that don't stick. If team members are not i...

This week the community presented me with a good problem to have - too much great content! Even after paring it down, there is still a lot I wanted to share. Arm yourself with a fresh beverage, we are about to dive in!

This month, we are releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities that impact TFS 2015, TFS 2017, TFS 2018, and Azure DevOps Server 2019. CVE-2019-1305: cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Repos CVE-2019-1306: remote code execution vulnerability in Wiki Here are the versions impacted: Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 Patch 1 If you ha...

I am always grateful for the opportunity to publish this newsletter, as the community continues to surprise me with amazing stories of applying automation to improve both software and human lives. Please check out this week's stories, especially the last one!