AZURE DEVOPS BASICS
- Azure Boards – All the plannings are carried out here, such as to create tasks, which are usually performed by Project Management Team or Developers. In addition, some Test cases are created here as well. Azure Boards does just that, bringing you a rich set of capabilities including native support for Scrum and Kanban, customizable dashboards, and integrated reporting.
- Azure Repos – Once the planning are completed, Developers start developing the code by using any of the IDE’s like Eclipse, Visual Studio etc. Application codes are placed here. Azure Repos is a set of version control tools that you can use to manage your code. Use version control to save your work and coordinate code changes across your team. Git is the tool mainly used here.
- Azure Pipelines – Once you completed the coding and verified that the code is fine and no errors, next task is building the code. Building of code happens in the Azure Pipelines. Azure Pipelines is a cloud service that you can use to automatically build and test your code project and make it available to other users. Azure Pipelines combines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to constantly and consistently test and build your code and ship it to any target.
- Azure Test Plans - Once the build is completed, next step is release the code to Dev environment. Here we will check some test cases on the code to ensure it is working. Azure Test Plans, a service launched with Azure DevOps earlier this month, provides a browser-based test management solution for exploratory, planned manual, and user acceptance testing. It provides mechanisms for continuous build, test, and deployment to any platform and cloud.
- Azure Artefacts – Suppose if we have 10 different projects, out of this 4 of them using a different dependency, another 2 using a different one and so on, in such cases we can put all those different dependencies onto Azure Artefacts. Azure Artifacts is a service where you can create package feeds to publish and consume Maven, npm, NuGet, Python, and universal packages.
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