As part of 8th official Finland Azure User Group meeting I presented "Mobile DevOps with App Center and VSTS"

1. HELSINKI
BY
KOMPOZURE
REGISTER NOW  http://bit.ly/devops-hki-2018

2. FAUG #8
DEVOPS
MOBILE CLIENT RELEASES
Okko Oulasvirta
Principal Consultant MSCD ALM
okko.oulasvirta@kompozure.com
@OkkoOulasvirta
Global DevOps Boot Camp HKI 2018  http://bit.ly/devops-hki-2018
KOMPOZURE

3. FAUG #8
DEVOPS: MOBILE CLIENT RELEASES
VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SERVICES
VISUAL STUDIO APP CENTER
GOOGLE PLAY

4. MOBILE APP RELEASE PIPELINE
VSTS App Center Google Play
Production app
Apple Itunes
TestFlight app
Production app
GIT
master
CI Build
iOS
Simulation
app.ipa
iOS
ALPHA
app.ipa
Android
Simulation
app.apk
Android
ALPHA
app.apk
CD Release
App Center
UI Testing
Environment
Automated UI tests
iOS devices
DEV Team
Android devices
Android devices
App Center
DEV Team
Devices
iOS devices
ALPHA
Approval
Pull Request
Closed Beta app
Closed Alpha app
BETA
PROD
Release
Validation
iOS
BETA,PROD
app.ipa
Android
BETA,PROD
app.apk

5. KEY POINTS FOR MOBILE BUILD
• Build all app configs from same commit
• UI-TEST, DEV, TEST, PROD, etc.
• Modify config appsettings.json, Android/iOS manifest
files etc. before build task
• Build number format 1.0.$(Build.BuildID)
• Increment app version code, version name using
$(Build.BuildNumber)
• Use different package name and label for different
configurations
• Keep your signing certificates safe with VSTS secured
files
• Publish different artifacts for different branches
• Run task with custom conditions to support multiple
branches  and(succeeded(),
eq(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], 'refs/heads/master’))
• NEWS ALERT! You can also build iOS apps with VSTS hosted
build agent (preview)

6. KEY POINTS FOR MOBILE RELEASE
Use Visual Studio App Center automated UI tests to ensure basic
functionality of your app
• Use pre- and post deployment approvals
• Use pre- and post deployment gates
NOTE: UI test may take up to 5 minutes to run per device

7. AUTOMATED UI TEST - PRICING
Scale UI testing with concurrent devices: each concurrent testing device (30h/mo) costs
99$ per month and for enterprise use (no test time limit) price is 499$ per device.
Questions to ponder for UI tests price:
• How much your manual testing costs?
• How fast you want to be with your
release pipeline?
• Do you have enough testers and
devices?
• How many users do you lose if their
model and/or OS version on their
device is not supported?

8. BENEFITS…
Questions to ponder
for UI tests price:
• How much manual
testing costs?
• Do you have
enough testers and
devices?
• How many users
do you lose if their
device model OS
version

9. VISUAL STUDIO APP CENTER RELEASE
Install VSTS extension for App
Center
• Connect App Center to VSTS
with service endpoint using
App Token
• Use VSTS build/release
tasks to deploy UI tests and
distribute internally your
app via App Center

10. VISUAL STUDIO APP CENTER RELEASE
Testers are added to App
Center
• Azure AD account
• MS account
• Google account
• Github account
• App Center account
Testers are notified by
email for new app
releases.

11. GOOGLE PLAY RELEASE
Install VSTS extension for Google
Play
• Create Service Account in
Google Play
• Connect Google Play to VSTS
with service endpoint using
service account and private key
• Use VSTS build/release tasks to
• Ceate Google Play Alpha,
Beta, Production releases
• Promote release
• Make partial roll-outs

12. GOOGLE PLAY RELEASE
Closed Alpha/Beta testers are
invited to Google Play
• Google account
Google Play notifies users android
for new app releases.
• Create app to Google Play
• First deployment manually
(release config and signed with
certificate)

13. DEMO
SIMPLE XAMARIN BUILD
SIMPLE APP CENTER “APP LAUNCHES” TEST

14. FAUG #?
DEVOPS: AZURE RELEASES
ARM TEMPLATES, VSTS CI/CD PIPELINE

15. FAUG #?
DEVOPS: MOBILE TESTING
APP CENTER TESTING – “DEVICE IN THE CLOUD”
XAMARIN UITESTS

16. FAUG #?
DEVOPS: MOBILE MONITORING
AZURE APP CENTER
AZURE APPINSIGHTS

17. FAUG #?
SHARE CODE WITH NUGETS
VSTS PACKAGE MANAGEMENT
PRIVATE NUGETS, NPM, MAVEN…