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AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
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AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
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The most common users of Azure DevOps Server are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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The firm as a whole makes use of Azure DevOps Server for project management, with its efficient capability to prioritize and approve project needs. Our IT team uses this top-notch application to streamline project management tasks like code versioning and test script administration and to make sure all of our requirements are met through thorough testing.
- Simple tracking of progress throughout the project.
- Perform project management duties with superior ability to set priorities and approve work.
- In order to ensure that all of the project's requirements are met, a thorough test plan is necessary.
- It doesn't work well with tools from other companies.
- Improvements can be made to the user interface to make it more natural to use.
- I also think capacity planning may use some fine-tuning.
We work according to Agile methodology and Azure DevOps Server (formerly known as TMS) helps us to track and follow the progress of our work efficiently. We use it for version control as well as to review backlog. As we are more of a Microsoft-based company, it helps us a lot since all Microsoft products can be integrated effortlessly with Azure DevOps Server which enhances user experience.
- You can integrate it effortlessly with almost all Microsoft products
- Supports Agile and can be used for version control
- Bug tracking
- Ease of use
- I feel that because it's a Microsoft product, it integrates better with other Microsoft products too. Since mine is more of a Microsoft-based company, it's not a problem for me, but for others, you might want to consider this before making any decision
- The user interface could have been better
- Agile boards can be better
Azure DevOps Server is a collaborative project management tool we used in one of our projects while working from home to collaborate among team members, it helped us to track bugs, commit codes, create user story, and various forms of reports related to project. It allows integration with our existing IDEs, version control like Git, setup the CI/CD pipelines for code testing, release and deployments.
Azure DevOps Server was very helpful to our teams while we started working remotely, helped in increasing the productivity and prototyping the projects for release without any delay. Best part of using this tool is reporting, we were able to create Kanbans dashboards for integrated reports.
Azure DevOps Server was very helpful to our teams while we started working remotely, helped in increasing the productivity and prototyping the projects for release without any delay. Best part of using this tool is reporting, we were able to create Kanbans dashboards for integrated reports.
- Reporting Integration- Azure boards provides Kanban and other dashboard, their templates for easy management of project.
- Project Pipeline- easy integration and development of CI/CD pipelines, helped in testing, releasing project artifacts.
- Version Control- Integration with Git and code IDE made it easy to share, review our code, fix bugs and do testing.
- Azure test plans can be improved to be more automated, existing generic templates can be added to create more test plan in different languages.
June 11, 2022
Manage and automate Software Development End2End.
Managing software development across several phases can be extremely difficult due two it’s complexity. DevOps and CI/CD can help to control this complexity. However, these methodologies need software solutions that suit this agile approach. In this case Microsoft DevOps is the best suite available at the moment. We use Microsoft DevOps end to end to manage the development of a cross-platform mobile application. As said we use the suite end to end. Starting with „Azure Boards“ to derive, document, and manage backlogs; „Azure Repos“ to manage repositories and changes/change requests; ending with automating testing and pipelines with „Azures Testing“ and „Azure Pipeline“. Integration and extensibility features are used for productivity purposes as well. In this way, Azure DevOps brings together all levels of information at code in one single tool. Especially the automation options in the pipeline Tier helped us to automate delivery processes for both platforms (iOS & Android).
- Integration and Extensibility Features.
- Pipeline automations.
- Configuration and flow of change requests workflows.
- Configuration of Boards (backlogs).
- Flexibility and ease of use of dashboards.
- Change logs of items.
- Expand automation options for iOS pipeline (include further triggers).
- Mass handling of backlog items could be improved.
June 08, 2022
Engineering Based Toolset for Extreme Collaboration
One product to cover the most common engineering activities in tech irrespective of the domain. Whether the team is in medical tech, fintech, aerospace tech, or a business process outsourcing firm, this platform has all the common tools needed in an Agile workspace with extreme collaborations across DevOps, Product, and Engineering. This gives the best centralized toolset, especially if your organization is already a Microsoft-based firm.
- Version control
- Requirements definition
- Secrets library management
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Wiki Markdown customization
- Better Syntax Highlighter in Repository
- Improvements in Requirements Definition Customization
February 24, 2022
All-in-one solution with stability
We are using Azure DevOps [(formerly Team Foundation Server)] in our IT department to help us with Agile software development. It helps us to track code changes with various work items like Tasks and Bugs. It also helps to test, build and deploy those changes to multiple environments. It easily integrates with Visual Studio to create a seamless experience.
- All-in-one product (don't need a bunch of separate connected products)
- Integrates easily with other Microsoft products
- Can use git or its own version control with less steep learning curve
- More stable than Atlassian products
- No clear-cut way to track items in a release, especially if they are not code change related
- Agile boards still lag behind Jira in terms of functionality
- Bamboo and Confluence have nice features over DevOps Build and Sharepoint
We use Azure DevOps to manage and store all our corporate source code and deploy our applications to a string of various environments from development to production. In addition, we use Azure DevOps on a daily basis to manage our agile-based projects. Azure DevOps is used to track and follow the progress of customer support tickets as well. Our business analysts use the Agile Project Management feature to log user stories.
- Azure DevOps easily handles our source code and works seamlessly with Visual Studio (our main development environment).
- Our business analysts use its features to document and assign user stories for Agile-based projects.
- Our deployment team uses Azure DevOps to push code from development to main to user acceptance and finally production.
- For managing Agile projects, web-based navigation is terrible. There's no easy drop-down menu system you have to hunt and peck around to try and find pages to manage your hours.
- Our management needs the ability to predict when development may finish a project. Azure DevOps fails here because it doesn't easily provide a feature to let you predict an end date and it doesn't easily provide you with a feature to export the data to Excel so you could plug-in a formula to calculate an end date.
- The menu options for code management are sparse. It would be great if they had a feature to let you simply drag and drop folder structures.
January 28, 2021
TFS is an excellent tool to support the full ALM
TFS is used for ALM of all in house supportive software, development of our flagship product and clinical studies for our latest version. TFS acts as a central hub for requirements, code, tests and reports. It links these facets of the product life cycle together.
- Linking together all aspects of the application life cycle, from requirements to code to builds and test.
- Trace-ability of all application life cycle via reports and queries.
- Automated testing.
- Flexibility of source code management. Centralized or distributed.
- Upgrade paths could be handled better. Very difficult to upgrade with customization in place.
- Capacity planning could be improved.
- Dot Net framework 260 character path limit is ridiculous.
December 03, 2019
Azure DevOps Server a great choice
Our IT department uses Azure DevOps Server to manage all our projects and for software development.
- Ease to manage code.
- Compatible with several services.
- Version control.
- Need more templates.
- Can be confusing to use at first.
- Reporting could be better.
November 23, 2019
ADS/TFS Offers Integration and Automation
Source control for application code, for the most part. For database code, it integrates well with Red Gate software. Besides scripting out database schema, Red Gate will even script out static data so it can be source controlled as well within TFS/ADS. My previous employer used TFS/ADS to automate builds and as a ticketing system.
- It allows you to view the history of any piece of code. Shows the differences. If you are a good 'code archaeologist' you can figure out why things were changed and when.
- It provides a repository of your code so you can reconstruct it in case of a catastrophe. With code history, you can restore the code as it was before some change that didn't work, was made.
- The tickets it creates can be linked to the changes in the code. This adds an important element showing causation. This code change resolves or is associated with this ticket which includes the purpose of the change.
- The way it uses workspaces is non-intuitive. I required help from our resident expert to get TFS set up initially.
- Don't forget to refresh again and again. Yes, of course, you want the latest changes - you shouldn't have to remember to keep hitting that button.
- Even though it uses a Microsoft SQL Server database to store its data, it uses the database in a non-standard way. Don't try to do the usual MS SQL backups - let TFS handle the backups.
October 15, 2019
Azure DevOps Server -What it offers
It was used as an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system that takes care of all aspects of software development from planning, requirements gathering to coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Also as a Source Code Control(SCC), Bug Tracking, Project Management, and Team Collaboration platform.
SDLC Management (SDLC – Software Development Life Cycle):
SDLC Management (SDLC – Software Development Life Cycle):
- Software Team Collaboration
- Source Code Management
- Supports Agile, Scrum, CMMI
- Bug Tracking
- Integrated Test Tools
- Automated Builds
- SDLC Management (SDLC – Software Development Life Cycle).
- Software Team Collaboration.
- Supports Agile, Scrum, CMMI.
- Bug Tracking.
- Reporting
- Code integration
- Project Management integrations
October 04, 2019
Azure DevOps server is a great product
We use the Azure Dev Ops server throughout the IT department of our organization. It is utilized by Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers, and QA. We have Git integration enabled and it has been an awesome experience with its integration to our source code. I especially love the built-in ability in the latest version to perform source code wide string searches. This makes it exceptionally easy to find code references and delve into new areas quickly. Aside from source control, it is our UI interface for all of our SCRUM project management needs. We create all of our tasks on the work items board and it makes it easy to see the progress of the overall team. Overall it's just been a great experience and I can't think of any complaints.
- Git integration has been fantastic.
- Provides a convenient UI for managing the SCRUM process.
- Built-in Code Review feature and completion policies.
- I wish I could default to a specific dashboard on load.
June 05, 2019
Take an advantage of Microsoft TFS for easy integration with other Microsoft family products
Dell Technologies uses Team Foundation Server for managing multiple projects across the North America region and rolling out in all other regions. If you use Visual Studio for development, TFS, or its online equivalent VSTS, you can have a fairly seamless end-to-end integration. Out of the box, it provides code management, testing, work hierarchy in agile formats, automated build, and deployment.
Dell manages source code, project reporting, engineering progress tracking and release management for agile software development. Microsoft TFS is also leveraged by the Product Management group to define and manage product requirements and managing the technical backlog. TFS really makes it easier to perform an end-to-end integration, reporting, tracking, code management, automated build, and deployment, etc.
- TFS makes it easier to build technical features and acceptance criteria that different team members of Product Manager, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Release Management.
- It enables the product managers to review technical backlog, prioritize features and go to market that helps improve key performance indicators.
- It provides seamless integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio that helps integrate and exchange data.
- TFS UI could improve like some of its major competitors with fewer options on the same UI page. TFS tries to offer too many options on the same UI.
- Development in branches is hard to achieve and TFS has a room for improvement.
- Integration with non-Microsoft is difficult. TFS could provide easier integration with other product lines to improve acceptability.
December 17, 2018
Code versioning tool with room for improvement
We use Team Foundation Server in the Information Systems Department in our company. All developers have access to Team Foundation Server to do code versioning. We use it integrated with Visual Studio to check-in and check-out our projects' code. We also use the web interface to navigate between code versions and to manually download code when necessary.
- Integration with Microsoft products, like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio
- Users are able to access via desktop client, web browser and through Visual Studio
- Code version control
- Bad UX and UI in the web interface
- Merging code is a very hard task
- Development in branches is also hard to achieve
- Not so easy to upgrade server version
September 20, 2018
Project Management made easy!
We use Team Foundation Server to manage manage almost all the projects and application packages. Team Foundation Server makes it easy for us to have good control of all the progress and it really helps in managing the whole release process even if a lot of developers and many teams are involved.
- The environment is easy to use.
- It is very easy to track progress of various work items.
- Project management is made really easy.
- There is no ability to work offline.
- There is a learning curve involved which is little hard to get when you are using the tool for the first time
- The UI can be little more organized.
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Team Foundation Server is used for version control of Microsoft .net applications, SSIS, SSRS. Also, TFS is used for tracking tasks, bugs and change requests.
- Version Control
- Track Bugs, Change Requests, Tasks
- Compare versions of SSIS can be improved
- Merging of the SSIS Code can also be improved
April 16, 2018
I like to work with Team Foundation Server
We use Team Foundation Server as Source Control Managment System and for automated Builds and Tests. We don't use the WorkItem System of Team Foundation Server. We Used it a couple of years ago, but it was to complicated. Right now we just use Trello with a Scrum AddOn for Task and Backlog Planning. Right now only our Developers are using Team Foundation Server.
- I like the Team Foundation Source Control Management much more compared to other Systems like GIT, because:
- - Perfect Integration into Visual Studio
- - Easy and direct checkout/check-in
- - Perfect branching and merging
- - Workflow Support with autmated Reminders
- The Build System is just great. Since Version 2017 its very easy to integrate self made tools into the build process.
- Easy Managament of Users and User Rights.
- Team Foundation Server could be improved in the Task and Backlog Managment for smaller Teams. E.G.: It's hard to quickly write down Tasks during a meeting because you have to fill in lots of Fields per WorkItem. It is hard to push the Items around.
February 05, 2018
Manage with order software deployment
In my organization Team Foundation Server is used to better manage all projects and application packages. Having several developers in place and having to work on multiple projects Team Foundation Server allows you to have complete control of all developments and to manage independently and with order every release and every package developed without loss of data or misalignments.
- No data loss
- Multiple deployments
- Deployment without problems of versions
- You must avoid getting stuck with check-in
- Developers must avoid overwriting
- The developers must be at minimum coordinated among themselves during the developments
February 02, 2018
TFS is great for a Microsoft Shop
We use it for our software development team. Team size is 8. It is being used as source control for .NET applications and as a continuous integration server. It is being used on site and also by our offshore partner developer team in Mexico. It helps us track versioning and collaborate with the peace of mind that we control the code.
- Continuous integration when the team is using azure is really easy.
- It's fairly intuitive to use.
- Azure or IIS deployment is very easy.
- The project management/scrum piece is hard to learn.
- The Wikipedia functionality it provides isn't very useful for lack of features.
- It takes a REALLY long time to check in a large number of newly added files.
- If your file paths get too long, TFS gives you errors.
December 01, 2017
TFS - The complete Development Tool
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used by the development and test teams at Peppermint Technology. It is used for management of our source code and we also take advantage of the automated build functionality. We also use it for storing all of our release user stories, tracking enhancements and bugs as well as taking advantage of the project management tools to support our agile development process.
- Work Item tracking - The ability to define the flow of your work items to match your development/test process is really valuable
- Version Control - The ability to easily track changes between every checked in version of source code can be a life saver
- Project Management - The project management dashboards showing things like burndown enables us to easily track whether we are on target for a release
- Integration between our help desk system and TFS was possible but not as easy as I would expect considering both are Microsoft products
- Advanced reporting for dashboards could be made easier
October 27, 2017
Team Foundation Server, making the development process just that little easier to manage
We use Team Foundation Server as a hub for our in-house software development. It allows the development team to centralise software issues, feature requests and testing.
- Source code management - Team Foundation Server handles our source code and makes examining check-ins and changes nice and easy.
- Project Management - Keeping the thousands of feature requests and bug submissions under control and in the right place is simple enough in TFS.
- Administration - As with most Microsoft products, administration is not a difficult affair. Familiar interfaces and tight integration with other Microsoft products make most tasks intuitive.
- Web interface - While the web interface is certainly very feature rich, there's just no substitute for a good desktop interface sometimes. The test side has Microsoft Test Manager as a desktop application counterpart, but almost everything else is done via the website. Some project management tasks could be simpler in a desktop environment.
October 26, 2017
Is TFS the right tool?
We are using TFS in our software division as a source control for code and DB objects. It allows us most importantly to keep a history of our code. Secondly, we can do deploys from this environment out to our many environments.
- TFS has an excellent interactive UI for all users to make source control easy to use.
- TFS has the backing of a major company, Microsoft. Updates and the way it is used gets regular updates.
- TFS integrates into Visual Studio.
- TFS has many tools for many different areas in the development life cycle.
- There is no real ability to work offline. You need to be actively connected to it in order to see history.
- Having many hands in the same project/file can cause conflicts that can be hard to resolve.
- having a "master" branch is difficult in TFS, it can be done but it is slow and cumbersome and not an intuitive process.
April 13, 2017
TFS = meh
We use team foundation server for source control.
- Project management
- Scrum
- Integration with visual studio
- Not a user friendly implementation of Git
- TFS version control is not widely used in favor of Git
April 04, 2017
TFS - Code and Testing and Tracability Review
We use it across the organization. We use TFS to manage projects beginning with the Business recording requirements, rating them by Priority and approving. IT utilizes TFS for managing Projects, versioning of code, Management of Test scripts. Utilizing the tool allows us full traceability.
- Tractability, Code to defects, Test cases to Requirements
- Metrics - Reworks on development, test cases to change, Defect by root cause
- Single source for all to pull data, business and IT
- Simplify automation testing, too much repetitive code with recording
- Easier access to Code reviews - our development team struggles with this
- Shelving and un-shelving details - development struggles in this area
March 13, 2017
Great Project Tracking Software
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is being utilized by many different departments within our organization. We personally use it to track tasks, user stories, bugs, releases, and test cases. Developers associate specific check-ins with bugs/user stories within TFS which, when pushed to our staging environments, are then assigned to QA/UAT for review. User stories and bugs are tracked as release scope for regular releases. The ability to associate releases/user stories/bugs in many different scenarios is priceless. It allows us to create different metrics/queries to measure success and potential failure, as well as to analyze what went well or what went wrong. TFS can be confusing for those new to the field or those who are older and used to other programs, but once the learning curve is achieved, the user tends to take well to the program.
- Field customization is a feature TFS has that I particularly like. We have a very specialized customization of TFS running so that I can query for specific iteration/release paths that are relevant to our metrics. We also utilize a unique workflow structure for bugs and user stories as the process from creation to close is unique within our company.
- TFS does their web view really well, especially with newer versions of the product. Often times, I feel that very little is lacking when I am logged into the web view of TFS. I am able to bulk edit items in the newer version of TFS, and at my old job we even set up the ability for QA to push checked in code to stage environments through TFS.
- Finally, I feel TFS does a very good job of keeping historical track of actions performed to tickets. If someone has edited a ticket in any way, I can review and identify who made the change and when. This helps give me context when a developer contacts me to ask me a question related to the wording of a ticket. This also helps hold people accountable if tickets are written incorrectly or incompletely and prevents people from passing blame to others.
- The older versions of TFS are more lacking in the web version-- if you aren't updated to 2015 or above I believe, a lot of the web features are not available (like bulk update). You really have to keep up to date with TFS for the best features, and it's no simple task to migrate your entire instance of TFS from an older version to a newer version.
- VSTS is supposed to be a virtual version of TFS that we've been looking into, but it severely limits customization options for ticket templates and workflows. It would be nice for VSTS to eventually carry that customization over so we could feel more comfortable switching to "the cloud" so to speak.
- Queries are a very powerful tool, but normal business users struggle to understand how they can best utilize this tool to analyze tickets. Because of the permissions structure in all companies I have been a part of, I've never been able to save my custom queries to a public folder in TFS for business/project users. Instead, I have to take time to train these users and give them guidance on how to best create queries for their needs. This is admittedly a business process issue, but it could potentially also be resolved with some good training/guidance around queries provided by TFS themselves.