Team Foundation Server 2008 Overview

Steve Lange | Developer Technology Specialist | Microsoft [email_address] Team Foundation Server

Introductions

What is Team Foundation Server?

TFS Walkthrough

Process Guidance & Automation

Project Portal

Source Control

Work Item Tracking

Interfaces/Integrations

Build Automation

Reporting

Q&A

Close & Next Steps

Team Foundation Server

A unified project server

Tester Developer Architect Project Manager Business Analyst Designer Database Professional

Architecture

Process Guidance & Automation

Project Portal

Version Control

Work Item Tracking

Team Build

Reporting

Data Tier Data Warehouse Version Control Work Items Team Build SQL Server 2005 Windows SharePoint Services Web Services Application Tier SQL Reporting Services Client Interface Visual Studio Team Explorer MS Project MS Excel TFS Web Access Command Line Build Environment Build Process Version Control Proxy Version Control Proxy Service

Embedded into Team Foundation Server

Provides contextual guidance (documentation)

Delivered via Process Templates

Helps ensure predictability

Configures TFS to support your Development Process

MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI

Several 3 rd party templates

Scrum, RUP, EssUP, XP, ThoughtWorks, Avanade …

Create your own or modify an existing one

Stored in an XML file

Process Template Editor tool

Configures:

Types of Work Items

Use Case, Task, Bug, Change Request, …

Contents of each Work item Type

UI for each Work Item Type

Process Guidance documentation

Layout for SharePoint Portal

Types of Reports

Leverages SharePoint

WSS 3.0

SharePoint Portal Server 2007 / MOSS

Surface guidance, documentation, reports, external collaboration

Major Capabilities

Changesets

Workspaces

Branch And Merge

Shelving

Integrated into Work Item Tracking, Builds

Logical container of data related to check-in

File and branch information

Links to work items

Check-in notes

Comment

Policy compliance

Metadata (date, time, user)

Unit of atomic checkin

Uniquely identified

Numeric identifier

Incremental

Represents a point in time of source repository

12 V5 9 12 4 12 Changeset 12 WorkItem 158 Checkin Event Artifact Link Workspace Validate Policies 1 Checkin Policy Engine Checkin Tests Work Items Custom Policy Static Analysis Commit Changes 2 Update Work Items 3 Checkin Mail 4

Client side copy of source checked out from repository

Owned by one user on one machine

Changes in workspace create “pending changes”

Workspace Mapping = Repository folder mapped to Local Folder

Atomic

A changeset is guaranteed to have all changes from a check-in

Integrated

Check-in policy applied (but override-able)

Work Items associated

Builds associated with Work Items

Check-in notes

All related to changeset

Pending Check-in Window

Notification possibilities

Check-in Policy

Customizable, extensible

Multiple Releases

Branching

Merging

V 1.0 V 2.0 V 1.1 start V 1.0’ branch merge merge

Branch

A branch relationship is created in TFS to avoid duplication of history and metadata

Path-space branching

Intelligent copies

Merge

Sync a branch into another

Cherry Picking changesets (include or omit)

Ability to show changes that have not been merged

Set aside pending changes without checkin

Optionally revert to unmodified files

Restore shelved changes by “unshelving”

Unshelve other user’s changes

Power of task branching with less overhead

Shelving Developer Switch Tasks Backup Work-In-Progress Checkpoint Work-In-Progress Share Work-In-Progress Perform a Code Review

Capability VSS TFS Changesets X Atomic Check-in X Shelving X Branching & Merging X X Work Item Integration X Check-in Policies X Annotation X Locking Exclusive Exclusive/Shared/None Diff/Merge Tools Supplied only Supplied or external, per file type Storage File system SQL Server Communication File system/UNC HTTP/S Security Read/Write Multi-layered Authentication App-specific Active Directory Integrated Build X Reporting X

Manages any “item of record”

Extensible (fields, dialogs, workflow)

Use familiar tools, including:

Title

Description

Current State

Who it is assigned to

Attachments

Links to other Work Items

Full Audited history

Anything else you want …

Closed Active Resolved Closed Active Resolved Proposed Scenario Tasks Bugs

Extension of MS Build

Several scenarios supported

Continuous Integration

Scheduled

Rolling

Ad-hoc

Provides build reporting back to TFS

Integrated testing

Extensible Multi-dimensional Warehouse

SQL Server Reporting Services

20+ included reports

Trending, aggregate, “roll-up” reports

Accessible via Portal, Team Explorer, others

Questions?

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Visual Studio Team System

Team System Case Studies

TFS Best Practices Guide

SOX Compliance & Team System

Requirements Management Whitepaper

Steve’s Blog on RM and TFS

Videos

“How Do I?”

VSTSRocks.com

Team System “Widgets” (comprehensive integrations & utilities list)

Project Server Connector

Blogs:

Steve Lange’s Blog

Brian Harry’s Blog (Microsoft TFS Adoption)

Events:

MSDN Events

© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.