Ranger December 2015 Flash – Last deliverables before rebooting into the new year

shipped

• Continuous Testing - A practical guide with concepts and approaches explores concepts, examples and practical guidance on test automation.
• Print Cards journal is now included with the source code and the team is busy planning the v2 release.
• Release Management Workflow Migrator enables you to export a Release Management agent based deployment pipeline so that it can be reused in the Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

new videos

• Print Cards Extension
• Folder Management Extension
• Welcome Email Extension
• VS Team Services Extension Debugging
• Migration of RM assets from RM server to TFS

new rangers

Welcome Paymon Parsadmehr to our Ranger community.

more community activity gems worth noticing

• Join Richard Hundhausen in the UK for the  Become a Scrum.org Trainer for PSD: London 2016 event.
• Vinicius Moura and Ricardo Serradas with their latest #vsosprints 92 - Git and TFVC together, Package Management build tasks, and more overview.

interesting reads

• general
  • Is your stomach bigger than your eyes?
  • 2015 Ignite New Zealand demo prep: Step 10
  • Last Show of the Year with Esteban Garcia
  • Developer Division’s transformation to DevOps by Sam Guckenheimer
  • 6 Great Webinars including: Building a DevOps practice step-by-step
  • The new work item form
  • The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year
• radio tfs
  • Last Show of the Year with Esteban Garcia
  • Mass Hysteria Git and TFVC living together
• team blog (aka.ms/vsarblog)
  • Extensions 101 – Attempting to visualize the main processing flow
  • Extensions 101 – But it worked yesterday … now what?!?
  • Do it faster, better, make an impact … or fail fast, and move on!
  • Three COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services

publications in one place

Find our quick reference posters and cheat sheets in one place, as outlined on aka.ms/vsarpublications:

• Agile: Project Planning, Scrum Overview
• Desired State Configuration: DSC Composite Resource, Custom Resource, Implementation, Overview
• Source Control Systems: Git and TFVC Overview, Git vs TFVC Considations, Git Workflow
• VS Team Services: Time Ticker Map 

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