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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Announcing Reporting Capabilities for Visual Studio Team Services

Reporting has always been a cornerstone of TFS.  By bringing together diverse data about your team’s software process, you are able to see relationships and gain insights on your process, and ultimately, take action to improve it.  Since 2010, the on-premises TFS product has enabled different reporting options through Excel reports, SQL ...

Receive an error when resolving a bug created by your build?

When you create a new build definition, you have the option to create a bug when the build failed. (image)   If you activate this option, it is possible that you will receive the following error message when resolving the bug: The field 'Assigned To' contains the value '[DefaultCollection]Project Collection Service Accounts' that is not ...

Using Release Management for Test Automation

My colleague Abhishek Agarwal wrote a nice article on how the Release Management team dog-foods Release Management service as part of their development process. It is a good use case for how you can use RM for deploying and testing your applications on a daily basis (or for every check-in).http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhishea/archive/2016/01/04/...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v1.1 released: static analysis now executed during the build

SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs...