Team Foundation Server 2008 in action

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azher, Jamil, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual studio.

Microsoft Team foundation server.

Computer software--Development--Computer programs.

Computer software.

Teams in the workplace--Data processing.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 324 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Manning 2009

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In complex software projects, managing the development process can be as critical to success as writing the code itself. A project may involve dozens of developers, managers, architects, testers, and customers, hundreds of builds, and thousands of opportunities to get off-track. To keep tabs on the people, tasks, and components of a medium- to large-scale project, most teams use a development system that allows for easy monitoring, follow-up, and accountability. Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS), the server component of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), provides a powerful collaborative platform for software-development teams. The product offers an integrated toolset for tracking work items, creating test cases, managing source code, generating builds, constructing database schemas, and so on. Because in software development one size does not fit all, TFS provides process customization, project management, and reporting capabilities to build solutions around your requirements. Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action is a hands-on guide to Team Foundation Server 2008. Written for developers with a good handle on TFS basics, this book shows you how to solve real-life problems. It's not a repetition of Microsoft's product documentation. Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action is a practitioner's handbook for how to work with TFS under common constraints. This book walks you through real-life software engineering problems based on hundreds of hours of TFS experience. You'll benefit from expert author Jamil Azher's extensive interactions with members of Microsoft's TFS team and MVPs, survey feedback from the author's blog, and interviews with organizations and user groups using TFS. Instead of just offering a high-level overview, the book provides detailed solutions for solving common-and not-so-common-problems using TFS. It discusses the strengths as well as weaknesses of TFS, and suggests appropriate problem resolution steps, workarounds, or custom solutions.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Dedication

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

Part 1. Exploring Team Foundation Server

Chapter 1. TFS and the practice of software development

Chapter 2. Exploring the changes in TFS 2008

Chapter 3. Introducing VSTS 2008 Database Edition

Part 2. Diving deep into version control and Team Build

Chapter 4. Understanding branching in version control

Chapter 5. Understanding branch policies

Chapter 6. Understanding merging in version control

Chapter 7. Understanding Team Build

Chapter 8. Versioning assemblies using Team Build

Part 3. Administering and customizing TFS

Chapter 9. Configuring and extending TFS

Chapter 10. Using workflow with TFS

Index

List of Figures

List of Listings.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781638354970

1638354979

OCLC:

1257076235