This document summarizes a presentation on setting up a release pipeline for SharePoint projects in Azure. The presentation covered topics like introducing software lifecycles and tools like Visual Studio Team Services and Azure. It discussed setting up automated builds, deployments with Release Management and testing at different stages. It also touched on managing technical debt through practices like code reviews, static analysis and rewriting code. The presentation included demos of building, deploying and testing a SharePoint project hosted in Azure.

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June 17th and 18th 2015
Setting up release pipeline
for SharePoint in Azure
Nov 21, 2015

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June 17th and 18th 2015
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Vincent BIRET
Email : vbiret@outlook.com
Twitter : @baywet
Blog : bit.ly/vincentbiret
LinkedIn :ca.linkedin.com/in/vbiret
SharePoint MVP
Products Team Tech Lead
Montreal

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Who’s that session for?

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• High-level understanding of ALM
• Being able to set up builds for SP projects
• Being able to set up RM for Apps
• High-level understanding of testing/QA
• Technical Debt Management
Session’s objectives

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• Intro to Software lifecycle
• Intro to VST/Azure
• The build system
• High-level intro to deploy and tests for SP
• Intro to tech debt management
• Conclusion
Today’s Agenda

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Software lifecycle
Where it all begins

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Software lifecycle
Plan
Dev
Test
Production
Idea/Need Business Plan
Marketing Sales
Market
Feedback
Agile/CMMI/…
Architecture
Source Control
IDE
Build
xTests

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Visual Studio Team Services and
Azure Let’s talk about tooling

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• Microsoft’s Cloud platform
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Literaly tons of services
• You’ve probably heard about it

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• TFS as a service
• Updated more
frequently
• Pay per user/build
• Everything except
– Release Manager**
– SharePoint Integration
– Process Template
Cutomization
– Data Warehouse
Visual Studio Team Services

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Build
Let’s increase quality of releases

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• Predictable result
• Constant quality
• Time saving
Automated builds

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• Hard to debug
• Only editable with VS
• Requires Controller + Agent
• Updates not automated
• Third party tools hard to integrate
Build

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• JSON definition
• Web edition
• Lot of third parties integrations
• Tasks on github! (see notes)
• Agent auto updates!
Build 2015

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• Hosted Agents
– BaaS
• Installed Agents
– Azure, or anywhere else
Agents

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Demo
Build section, build agents 2015

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Deploy
More automation

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Options available
**

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• Easy to automate
• PowerShell is your friend
FTC deployment

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• SharePoint Hosted
• Provider Hosted
Apps Deployment

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Targets

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Pros
• Deployment easier
• Unit testing easier
Should SPFarm configured on build machine?
Cons
• Heavier footprint
• Can impact build

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Demo
LaPresse Deployment With Release
Management

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Testing
Final touch to QA

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• Unit testing
• Load testing
• Integration testing
• System testing
• Functional/Acceptance testing
Tests levels

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• Installation
• Compatibility
• Regression
• Destructive
• Security
• L17N/I13N
• A/B
• …..
Tests types

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• Mstest
• Nunit
• xUnit
• Grunt
• Gulp
Test tools

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• Provisioning model
– Complex
– Closed
• OM hard to emulate/test against
The SharePoint Test World

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• Almost impossible
• Comes at great investments
Tests with FTC’s

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• Easy for everything out of SharePoint
• Harder for SP-Hosted Apps
Tests with Apps

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Demo
Unit tests of La Presse

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Demo
Test plan of Oceanik

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Technical Debt Management
Or how to avoid digging your own grave

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• Code we’re not comfortable with
• Preventing us from innovating
• Causing a lot of support
• Stressful for the team
What is tech debt?

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• Rewrite everything every 2 years
• Pair coding
• Static analysis
Solutions?

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Demo
SonarQube for Oceanik

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Conclusion
Time to say goodbye

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• Lot of time saved
• Consistent builds
• Automated tests
• Quality increased
• Money saved
Conclusion

40. Stay tuned for more great sessions …
Thanks for attending!
@baywet bit.ly/vincentbiret bit.ly/vince365

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