Starting a TFS release via REST API

Intro It is a common need to inject variables in your release. When it comes to a build, it was always an easy task, however, the release didn’t support such a thing out of the box. In case you are using Azure DevOps (service and server), you are good to go, as this is now […]

Azure DevOps extension for XL Deploy

XL Deploy and Microsoft development process improvement tools are long date friends. XL Deploy started supporting TFS since the 2010 version. Initially, the integration came in form of custom build activities for XAML templates. With TFS 2015, Microsoft introduced a simpler task and script-driven cross-platform build system and XL Deploy followed up with an extension […]

Living Documentation and test reports in VSTS/TFS pipelines

Introduction In order to truly get advantage from all of the hard work that we put into our tests, we need to present our test run results and share our specifications in more convenient and accessible way. On Windows platform in order to make this tasks happen, we can leverage tools that you are probably […]