deep dive modern apps lifecycle with visual studio 2012: bring it all together: build, deploy and...

Build, Deploy and Test withVisual Studio Lab Management 2012Pieter Gheysens

Pieter GheysensVisual Studio ALM MVPUser Group Lead VISUG@pietergheysens

www.sparkles.be www.visug.be

VISUG Day – April 17, 2013

Full details at www.visugday.be

Agenda

ALM withVisual Studio 2012

ContinuousValueDelivery

QualityEnablement

Goals of Visual StudioLab Management

Build Deploy Test ** DEMOS **

ALM with Visual Studio 2012

ULTIMATE

Team Explorer Everywhere

Extensibility

SharePoint

Project Server

System Center

Premium

ProfessionalTest

Professional

TEAMFOUNDATIO

NSERVER

Lab Management

Office

Web Access

Windows Azure

Version Control Test Case Management

RequirementsManagement

Build Automation

ProjectManagement

Reporting

ALM with Visual Studio 2012

ULTIMATE

Team Explorer Everywhere

Extensibility

SharePoint

Project Server

System Center

Premium

ProfessionalTest

Professional

TEAMFOUNDATIO

NSERVER

Lab Management

Office

Web Access

Windows Azure

Version Control Test Case Management

RequirementsManagement

Build Automation

ProjectManagement

Reporting

Continuous Value Delivery

QUALITY ENABLEMENTDEPLOYMENT READINESS

QualityEnableme

nt

Deployment Readiness

Quality of service MTTRCycle times

Important Metrics for Success

Collaboration Dev-Test-Ops?

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

Documentation

Visibility

Environment Differences

Cost of Fixing Bugs

Development

Test

Release

Software Phase

Cost of Bugs

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

NO MORE NO REPRO!

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

Build Controller+ Test Controller

TestAgents

Virtual EnvironmentsVisual StudioLab Management 2012

Lab Management Workflow

BUILD

restoreenvironme

nt

DEPLOYenvironme

ntsnapshot

TEST

Demo Build-Deploy-TestVisual StudioLab Management 2012

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

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]

Questions&Answers

Resources

• Visual Studio ALM + TFS Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/

• ALM Rangers – Visual Studio Lab Management Guidehttp://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 Managementhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd936084.aspx

Related ALM Session @ TechDaysBuilding & Testing a Windows 8 App, making use ofTeam Foundation Service [March 7, 16h15-17h30, Room 6]

Contact

pieter.gheysens@sparkles.be@pietergheysenswww.sparkles.bewww.intoalm.net