TFS 2017 Immersion

Course Outline

Modules

Day One: Team Development

Module 1.1: Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and TFS 2017
•      What’s new in Visual Studio 2017
•      Overview of the Visual Studio 2017 family
•      A lap around Visual Studio Team Services

Module 1.2: Organizing Work with Team Projects
•      Organizing projects in TFS or VSTS
•      Understanding process templates
•      Creating a new team project
•      Setting team project properties

Module 1.3: Managing Work Using Work Items
•      Overview of work items
•      Traceability between work items
•      Searching and creating custom queries
•      Work item charting and pinning charts
•      Work item tagging
•      Configuring project notifications

Module 1.4: Integrating the Team Using Different Clients
•      Using Team Explorer
•      Using Microsoft Excel to create and manage work items
•      Team Web Access
•      Third-party clients

Day Two: Managing Agile Projects

Module 2.1: Creating Our Product Backlog
•      Examining requirement types
•      Creating backlog items
•      Creating requirement hierarchies using features and epics
•      The importance of acceptance criteria

Module 2.2: Agile Estimation
•      Introduction to estimation
•      Using story points
•      Planning Poker and other popular estimation techniques
•      Adding your estimates to work items

Module 2.3: Working from the Product Backlog
•      Introducing the Kanban board
•      Entering and editing details on the Kanban board
•      Customizing columns including using split columns and limiting WIP
•      Recording our Definition of Done (DoD)
•      Understanding the Cumulative Flow Diagram

Module 2.4: Working in Sprints
•      Specifying your sprint schedule and team capacity
•      Selecting items for the sprint backlog using forecasting
•      Decomposing requirements into tasks
•      Using burndown charts to track progress
•      Monitoring work using the task board
•      Working with unparented work items

Module 2.5: Creating and Customizing Reports
•      Overview of reporting architecture
•      Reviewing the out-of-the-box reports
•      Adding new reports
•      Creating ad hoc reports using Excel

Day Three: Agile Development

Module 3.1: TFS Version Control Concepts
•      Version control in Visual Studio
•      Version control terminology
•      A closer look at workspaces
•      Changesets and shelvesets

Module 3.2: Using Team Foundation Version Control
•      The Source Control Explorer
•      Getting code into TFVC
•      Understanding the Pending Changes experience
•      Linking changesets to work items
•      Locking files in TFVC

Module 3.3: Configuring an Effective Version Control Environment
•      Working with workspaces
•      Setting team-project-wide source control settings
•      Check-in policies
•      Backward compatibility using the MSSCCI provider

Module 3.4: Branching and Merging
•      Defining a branching strategy
•      How to branch
•      Branch visualization and tracking changes
•      Merging and resolving conflicts
•      Custom differencing tools

Module 3.5: Unit Testing and Code Quality Tools
•      Unit testing in Visual Studio
•      Visual Studio Test Explorer
•      Code metrics
•      Static code analysis

Day Four: Agile Testing

Module 4.1: Creating Your First Test Plan
•      Creating a test plan
•      Creating test suites
•      Mapping requirements to tests
•      Mapping effort to specific builds
•      Configuring test settings including data collectors

Module 4.2: Authoring Test Cases
•      Creating and managing test cases
•      Creating reusable shared steps
•      Databinding our test cases
•      Using shared parameters

Module 4.3: Executing Test Cases
•      Assigning a test case to a tester
•      Navigating the Microsoft Test Runner
•      Recording reliable action recordings
•      Test Case Fast Forward

Module 4.4: Raising and Verifying Bugs
•      Raising a bug from the Microsoft Test Runner
•      Viewing bug states
•      Verifying a bug fix

Module 4.5: Exploratory Testing
•      What is exploratory testing?
•      Tools for exploratory testing
•      Creating bugs and test cases from exploratory tests

Day Five: DevOps

Module 5.1: An Overview of DevOps
•      Demystifying the DevOps buzzword
•      Understanding DevOps value
•      How the Microsoft stack supports DevOps

Module 5.2: Continuous Integration and Build Automation
•      Understanding the build infrastructure
•      Creating new build definitions
•      Configuring continuous integration
•      Build customization
•      Working with legacy XAML builds

Module 5.3: Release Management
•      Creating a release pipeline
•      Overview of deployment options
•      Configuring continuous deployment
•      Deploying applications to Azure

Module 5.4: Continuous Testing
•      Configuring automated testing
•      Web tests and load tests

Module 5.5: Monitoring Your Application Using Application Insights
•      Overview of Application Insights
•      Adding Application Insights to your web application
•      Tracking usage data
•      Viewing Application Insights data in the portal