Agile Software Development With Azure DevOps

Surveying Azure DevOps features

• Team collaboration
• Process templates
• Version control
• Automated builds
• Integrated tests

Installing Azure DevOps

• Planning an Azure DevOps installation
• Creating collections with the administrative console
• Managing project security and group membership with the Web control panel

Securing Azure DevOps projects

• Assigning permissions to security groups
• Adding users to teams and projects
• Restricting user rights
• Configuring user alerts

Creating projects for Azure DevOps

• Comparing the built-in Scrum, CMMI and Agile process templates
• Specifying source control
• Customising process templates

Mapping Azure DevOps and Agile process terms

• Defining epics and user stories as Azure DevOps work items
• Inputting features and backlog items
• Estimating and prioritising work items
• Breaking backlog items into tasks

Organising backlogs

• Scheduling start and end dates for releases and Sprints
• Assigning backlog items to iterations and team members
• Recording work remaining and status
• Monitoring team progress

Collaborating on code with TFVC and Git

• Selecting centralised vs. distributed version control
• Synchronising local repositories with the master repository
• Viewing project history with changesets

Connecting to Azure DevOps from Visual Studio Team Explorer

• Checking out and checking in source code
• Merging changesets from multiple developers
• Branching for release management and maintenance
• Resolving multi-user conflicts
• Adding existing code to Azure DevOps source control

Creating, running and automating builds

• Defining and scheduling builds
• Managing releases and deployments
• Controlling build output

Crafting quality software through continuous testing

• Integrating unit testing into builds
• Leveraging Visual Studio code analysis and testing tools
• Creating TFS test scripts for manual testing
• Documenting and tracking bugs

Managing backlogs and querying Azure DevOps content

• Assigning work to iterations
• Querying and defining iteration backlogs
• Visualising work-in-progress with Kanban boards
• Monitoring progress with burndown charts