The document discusses the Visual Studio App Center, emphasizing its role in enhancing software productivity by streamlining app delivery and monitoring processes. It highlights the shift from manual end-to-end testing to fully automated testing on real devices, which helps in better design and innovation. Overall, it underscores the importance of reducing repetitive tasks to allow developers to focus on creating features and improving feedback loops.

1. Build・Test・Deploy・Monitor・Repeat
Meet Visual Studio App Center
Luke Kim
Principal Group Software Engineering Manager

2. Productivity

3. Software drives more of the things we do every day.

4. New challenges
More devices Emerging platforms Data & intelligence

5. App Delivery 1000+ Devices100+ apps
Design & Develop
Monitor Test

6. Chaos, uncertainty
and urgency
Repetitive & Inessential Steps

8. HockeyApp Xamarin Test Cloud Xamarin Insights
Distribution • Crashes • Analytics Device Tests Crashes • Analytics
Azure Mobile Engagement Azure App Service CodePush
Analytics • Push Tables • Auth • Push Distribution
Visual Studio App Center

9. Skip inessential steps
Before
Repetitive & Inessential Steps
After
Essential Work Only

11. What next?

12. Testing the old way
Previously
Manual E2E quality assurance
and regression testing

13. Master
Dev
QA
Build Server
Current
Fully automated end to end real-
world device testing

15. What else?

16. One distribution process
Receive automatic updates

17. One analytics pipeline.

18. What does this mean?

19. Better design
Less time worrying about
affects on devops.
Innovation gains
More time spent creating
features
Clearer results
Shorter feedback loop to
identify positive change.

20. Visual Studio
App Center
appcenter.ms

21. Visual Studio App Center

22. Visual Studio App Center

23. HockeyApp iOS, Android, UWP
Visual Studio App Center

24. Visual Studio App Center

25. Visual Studio App Center

26. Visual Studio App Center

28. Thank you!
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