The document outlines best practices for implementing continuous integration (CI) using TFS, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a single source repository, automating builds, and ensuring daily commits to the mainline. It discusses the benefits of CI such as reduced risk, easier bug detection, and improved deployment processes. Additionally, it offers guidance on introducing CI to a team, including success and failure stories.

1. Continuous Integration with TFS
Presented by:
Mohamed R. Samy
Solutions Architect/ ALM consultant

2. Agenda
● Introduction
● Building a Feature with Continuous Integration
● Practices of Continuous Integration
● Maintain a Single Source Repository.
● Automate the Build
● Make Your Build Self-Testing
●
Everyone Commits To the Mainline Every Day
●

3. Agenda Contd.
● Every Commit Should Build the Mainline on an Integration
Machine
● Keep the Build Fast
● Test in a Clone of the Production Environment
● Make it Easy for Anyone to Get the Latest Executable
● Everyone can see what's happening
● Automate Deployment
● Benefits of Continuous Integration
● Introducing Continuous Integration to your team
●

4. Introduction
● War stories

5. Building a feature

6. The practices of CI

7. Practice 1
● Mainatin a single source repository

8. Practice 2
● Automate the build

9. Practice 3
● Make Your Build Self-Testing

10. Practice 4
● Everyone Commits To the Mainline
Every Day

11. Practice 5
● Every Commit Should Build the Mainline
on an Integration Machine

12. Practice 6
● Keep the Build Fast

13. Practice 7
● Test in a Clone of the Production
Environment

14. Practice 8
● Make it Easy for Anyone to Get the
Latest Executable

15. Practice 9
● Everyone can see what's happening

16. Practice 10
● Automate Deployment

17. Benefits of CI
● Less risk
● Easier to find bugs
● Higher predictability
● Bugs take less time to discover and don't
accumulate
● Spread the pain over time (10 v per hour vs, 1000
volts at the end)
● Fix deployment issues
●

18. Introducing CI to your Team
● Expected responses
● Convincing arguments
● Success stories
● Failure stories?