ALM / DevOps

TH07 Automate Your Builds with Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server

06/16/2016

9:30am - 10:45am

Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Tiago Pascoal

Visual Studio ALM MVP

If you're using Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this is the session to learn how to automate your build processes and integrate them into your development process. You'll learn how to easily author, monitor and trigger your builds using just a Web browser.

And building automation means the entire cycle. You'll learn to fetch code from source control, build, test and pack your code in an automated way repeatable process. Learn not only how to define your builds, but how to extend TFS/VSTS build process to add to your build automation process your own tooling and needs not covered with the processes available out of the box. It doesn't matter if you're writing code in Windows, OSX or Linux, this session has it covered.

You'll learn:

  • About Team Build and its concepts
  • How to use team build to implement cross platform builds
  • How to extend Team Build to support tools that are not available out of the box