Sometimes you end up working on projects that just don’t go well. Distractions, no focus, impossible to develop. Shifting requirements, brutally hard to test, non-stop bugs. In this course, DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio & TFS 2015, you’re going to learn about doing DevOps in the Microsoft world. There will be some theoretical material about DevOps that’s entirely cross-platform to get you into the mindset of DevOps. The rest is going to be a lot of practical information, showing you how to take that DevOps mindset and actually do DevOps using Microsoft’s tools and technologies. The first topic this course will cover will be version control, covering Team Foundation Server and Git. Next, you’ll learn about automated build, automated testing, and automated deploy, as well as how to streamline releases using feature flags. Finally, you’ll learn about the TFS release management for doing continuous deployment. By the end this course, you’ll know why you should care about DevOps and how to set up your own automated DevOps release pipeline for your application.
Author Name: Benjamin Day
Author Description:
Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft’s development tools with an emphasis on Team Foundation Server, Scrum, and Windows Azure. He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, a certified Scrum trainer via Scrum.org, and a speaker at conferences such as TechEd, DevTeach, and VSLive. When not developing software, Ben’s been known to go running and kayaking in order to balance out his love of cheese, cured meats, and champagne. He can… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What Is Devops? Why Do I Care?
  17mins
• Consolidating Your Team’s Source Code with Version Control
  52mins
• Work & Constraints
  18mins
• Planning and Tracking Your Team’s Work
  44mins
• Unit Testing and DevOps
  17mins
• Managing & Deploying SQL Server Database Code
  30mins
• Automating Builds and Deployments
  49mins
• Managing ‘Hot Fixes’ & Code Quality: Branches and Code Reviews
  48mins
• QA Testing & Automated UI Tests with Coded UI
  62mins
• Simplifying Feature Deployments and Feedback
  49mins
• DevOps Release Pipelines with Visual Studio Release Management
  33mins