Build, Deploy and Test with Visual Studio Lab Management 2012

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Build, Deploy and Test withVisual Studio Lab Management 2012

Pieter Gheysens

www.sparkles.be www.visug.be

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VISUG Day – April 17, 2013

Full details at www.visugday.be

Agenda

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ALM with Visual Studio 2012

TEAMFOUNDATION

SERVER

Office

ALM with Visual Studio 2012

Test

Professional

TEAMFOUNDATION

SERVER Lab Management

Office

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Continuous Value Delivery

QUALITY ENABLEMENTDEPLOYMENT READINESS

QualityEnablement

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Deployment Readiness

Quality of service MTTRCycle times

Important Metrics for Success

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Collaboration Dev-Test-Ops?

3 top reasons why Bugs are difficult to reproduce (and fix)?

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Cost of Fixing Bugs

Development

Test

Release

Software Phase

Co

st of B

ugs

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Goals of Lab Management

Improve productivity and quality of software development projects through better cross-functional collaboration features

Reduce costs associated with physical test environments

Improve speed of deployments

Integrate automated tests in build-deploy cycle

Provide rich actionable information

Lab Management Demo Environment

Client Physical Server

(Hyper-V Host)

TFS 2012 QU1

Active Directory

SCVMM 2012 SP1

VMM Library

VS 2012 Ultimate

(includes MTM)

Virtual Machines

TestVMs

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Lab Management Workflow

BUILD

restore

environment

DEPLOYenvironment

snapshot

TEST

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Demo Summary

Regular build compiles solution and runs basic unit tests

[Lab build reverts to clean and isolated test environement]

Lab build uses output (.dacpac file) to create new SQL database

Lab build uses output (MSDeploy package) to deploy website

[Lab build creates a post-deployment snapshot]

Lab build runs automated Coded UI Tests for multiple browsers

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Takeaways

• Investigate in creating good templates or VMs in the Library

• Find right balance between simulating a full “Production environment” and a lightweight deployment environment

• Finetune “Test Settings” for automated Coded UI Tests

• Focus on critical path testing

• Build – Measure – Learn

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”[quote from Lao-tzu]

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Resources

• Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/

• ALM Rangers – Visual Studio Lab Management Guide

http://vsarlabman.codeplex.com/

• Planning for Visual Studio Lab Management? Dos and Donts!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ff756575.aspx

• Configuring and Administering Lab Management

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd936084.aspx

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Related ALM Session @ TechDays

Building & Testing a Windows 8 App, making use of

Team Foundation Service [March 7, 16h15-17h30, Room 6]

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Contact

[email protected]

@pietergheysens

www.sparkles.be

www.intoalm.net