1. Team Foundation Server – Build-Deploy-Test Workflow
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James Waletzky, Crosslake Partner
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2. Assessment & Improvement Plan
Engineering System
Assessment & Improvement Plan
Process
People
Tools
Interim technology leaders
Organizatioal models and career development
Coaching and training
Product vision & strategy
Software development model and workflow
QA practices and tools
Product, program and project management
Human Performance Improvement
Best Practices
Business Impact:
Enhance product value and quality
Increase engineering effectiveness
Reduce time to market
Implement best practices and tools
Deliver measurable improvements
ALM Deployment
Development tools and implementation
Visual Studio/TFS
Build, deploy, test
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3. What is your experience level with TFS Lab Management?
I am not very familiar with TFS lab management
I know what lab management can do but want to learn more
We have a lab management environment but want to learn more
We use basic lab management scenarios
We have a full System Center/Hyper-V based environment
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4. What’s in it for you? How does TFS lab management help me?
Find out how TFS automates the build-deploy-test workflow, making certain operations minutes instead of days
Make environments consistent, reduce errors, automate rote tasks, minimize bug repro times, reduce costs
What are the requirements for enabling lab management?
Learn how easy it is to get started; some perceived “requirements” are not really requirements.
How does this whole build-deploy-test (BDT) workflow work with TFS?
We will take a trip through an end-to-end BDT scenario
How do I get started and what are the best practices?
Hear some pointers on getting started, sprinkled with a few best practices
Notes/Assumptions:
Focus is on 2012; 2013 will not change much.
Hopefully our scenario is similar to yours. Let us know if it is not and we can discuss.
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5. A Typical Build-Deploy-Test Scenario
A brief look at some common software development activities
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6. Would you rather do this manually or automate?
Build-Deploy-Test
Unit test
Continuous integration
Develop
Clean environment (build machine)
Binaries dropped
Build
Setup/Tear down test environments
Copy/Install/Configure
Deploy
Integration test
Test
Would you rather do this manually or automate?
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7. Where we want to go
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8. Team Foundation Server Lab Management
A whirlwind overview of key features
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9. Architecture Overview
Microsoft Test Manager
What’s new in TFS 2012?
Only one type of agent – test agent
Test agents are automatically installed in test environments
MTM comes with VS Ultimate, VS Premium and VS Test Professional
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10. Microsoft Test Manager: Testing Center
The Testing Center is the QA engineer’s home base
Skip by this slide quickly since audience will have seen Testing Center before.
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11. Microsoft Test Manager: Lab Center
Lab Center is where test environments, configuration, and deployment are controlled.
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12. Why Lab Management? Improve product quality and time to test through:
Scalable architecture
Tight integration with the rest of the TFS ALM suite
Automate Build-Deploy-Test workflow
Manage test environments
Handle large test matrices easier
Diagnostic data collection during workflow
Snapshots, VM library and network isolation (SCVMM)
Time spent installing
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13. Lab Management Walkthrough
Scenario:
Fabrikam Fiber provides TV and cable services to the US. Their main application is a ASP.NET MVC application in the cloud for a customer-facing web site, as well as an on-premise application for administering customer requests. The team wants to automate their build, followed by deployment, followed by test validation.
Process:
Setup and configure a test environment
Test controllers
Create a new test environment
Set up a build-deploy-test definition
Define the environment to be used
Execute the build-deploy-test workflow!
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14. SCVMM vs. Standard Environments
With SCVMM, you can:
Automatically setup and teardown of VMs
Snapshot and rollback an environment from within the lab management environment
Maintain libraries of host environments
Create host machines based on templates
Capability
SCVMM
Standard
Testing
Run manual tests
Supported
Run coded UI and other automated tests
File rich bugs using diagnostic adapters
Build deployment
Automatic build-deploy-test workflows
Environment creation and management
Use physical machines in addition to virtual machines
Not supported
Use third-party virtual machines
Automatically install test agents onto machines in the lab environment
Save and deploy the state of a lab environment using environment snapshots
Create lab environments from VM templates
Start/stop/snapshot environment
Connect to the environment using Environment Viewer
Run multiple copies of an environment at the same time using network isolation
Templates do not contain a machine name or other unique identifiers
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15. A Trip Through the Development Lifecycle…
Dev writes code & unit tests; executes unit tests regularly
QA writes test cases and automation
Dev tests privately and checks-in code
Continuous integration build is kicked-off
On successful CI build, bits are deployed to a common share
Test environment(s) is spun up
Bits are deployed to test environment(s)
Deployment scripts are executed
Automated tests are executed
Results are reported
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16. Frequently Asked Questions
What about Azure VM support?
Not officially enabled at this time, but the VS ALM Rangers are working on a proof-of-concept/story
What about other cloud solutions?
Check out SkyTap Cloud
Please indicate you were referred by Crosslake
Does TFS support non-Hyper-V VMs?
Yes!
BLOG: Does Lab Management support non-Hyper-V platforms?
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17. REMINDER: Best Practices
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18. What’s next? Please fill out the survey at the end of the webinar
Download the slides:
Evaluate TFS
Free hosted:
VM used for this demo is free
If a locally-hosted solution is right for you, take the time to plan it
Contact Crosslake for advice on development processes, practices, and/or TFS deployment
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19. Links & Resources Overview of Lab Management (MSDN)
Lab Management Hub (MSDN)
VS ALM Rangers Lab Management Guide
Lab Management Frequently Asked Questions
Using Lab Manager to Create a Build Lab in the Sky (Azure)
SkyTap Cloud TFS Integration
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20. Software Engineering Excellence
James Waletzky Partner
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21. Appendix
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