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The Importance of Quality Assurance in the Development Life Cycle

June 6, 2020 Jun 6, 2020 06/6/20

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Whether it's a software lab or an in-house department that creates its own applications, its reputation can be made or destroyed whenever a product is launched. Therefore, the concern with software quality becomes increasingly essential for any company that wants to stand out in the market.

Upgrading to the New Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

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This blog post will highlight a case from the field to shed some light on what changes are made to the work item form, also known as the 'Best-effort transformation'. We'll walkthrough a case from the field where the custom work item was very different after upgrade.

Power Apps Build Tools for Azure DevOps

May 30, 2020 May 30, 2020 05/30/20

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Given the dire need expressed by many of our enterprise customers for a complete ALM and DevOps support in to the Microsoft Power Platform I felt like writing this blog to give a very quick high-level overview of the tool and its capabilities.

Simplified Automated QA Testing on Azure DevOps

May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020 05/29/20

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Setting up automated testing can be complex, but I wanted to build out an automated testing system that would be simple to understand and implement, yet cover most of the basic needs of test automation.

Approach for Merging Dynamics CRM Solutions with DevOps implementations.

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

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How do I merge solutions in CRM? How do I perform feature-based deployment in Dynamics CRM? These are a few frequently asked questions when I am presenting DevOps for CRM talks or asked about my post on “Continuous Integration, Deployment and Test Automation for Dynamics CRM.

Azure DevOps setting up Repository permissions

May 15, 2020 May 15, 2020 05/15/20

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As your organization grows, you will start to have many repositories inside of your Azure DevOps projects. Most organizations allow developers to browse and contribute to any repository, and put policies on pull requests for specific branches to protect them.

3 Tips for Adding Security to CI/CD Pipelines

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

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When working with customers that are just starting their journey of converting to CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps, the initial focus is making sure their current manual build and release processes are automated. Can our pipeline do more? How do we build security steps into the process?

The Journey to a DevOps Culture

April 25, 2020 Apr 25, 2020 04/25/20

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Sharing best practices across the enterprise becomes more important and reshaping organizational structure and transforming into modern Agile practices with a DevOps culture, while difficult, will lead to the faster delivery of stable high-quality applications with fewer bugs, less technical debt the ability to more rapidly deliver value.

How to retrieve all work items associated with a release pipeline using Azure DevOps API

April 20, 2020 Apr 20, 2020 04/20/20

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In this article we are going to learn how to retrieve all work items associated with a release pipeline using the Azure DevOps API.

Azure DevOps Pipelines – Multi-Stage Pipelines and YAML for Continuous Delivery

April 14, 2020 Apr 14, 2020 04/14/20

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YAML Pipelines enable you to store your pipeline as code, and Multi-stage YAML pipelines provide the ability to scale this to CI, CD, or the combination of the two.

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