DevOps Classroom notes 17/Oct/2023

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps was earlier called as Visual Studio Team Services
Azure DevOps offers servies to
- manage agile projects
- test management
- Pipelines
Features of Azure DevOps
- Management:
  - Azure Boards
  - Agile Management
- Testers:
  - Test Management
- DevOps:
  - Pipelines
- Developer:
  - Version Control System
Azure DevOps setup
- Azure DevOps Server:
  - We need to install this on Windows Servers
- Azure DevOps Services
  - This is already hosted
  - We can create account using
    - GitHub
    - Microsoft Account
Plans
High level overview
Services offered
- Wiki: For documentations
- Boards: Here the whole project items
  - product backlog
  - sprint backlogs
  - burn down charts …
  - Scrum board
- Azure Repos: This is to manage source code
- Azure Pipelines: This is to manage CI/CD pipelines
- Azure Test Plans: Test management i.e. Test cases, executions, defects and reports are managed here
- Azure Artifacts: Storage for packages build during pipelines

Why do we need to do Continuous Integrations?
- We do integrations multiple times in a day from day 1 of the project so that we can avoid surpirses during big bang integrations.
- To perform automated integrations we need tools
  - build/package the code
  - run the tests
  - evaluate the test results
The idea is perform continuous integration for almost every change submitted by developer(s)
Open Questions- To be discussed tomorrow:
- What are the tests that need to be executed?
- How can code written by developers improved ?