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Questions tagged [azure-devops]

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Is it okay to deploy both front end and backend everytime if they are in a single repository

I have a project with .net core web api backend and angular as front end. I have single repository for both the projects with front end and backend in their own separate folders. I have written pipeline in azure which builds both front end and…
Pawan Nogariya
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Should story points be re-estimated when rolling un-finished stories into next sprint?

We plan our sprint capacity in story points - so for example we have 20 points available when planning a sprint. When we have stories which were not completed in the previous sprint, we generally roll them over. But what was originally a 5 point…
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How to represent technical debt in agile development using azure devops?

As we are implementing some stories we find some things which need to be put on a backlog as technical debt, often because there are larger questions linked to other stories or features which cannot be trivially answered and would derail our sprint…
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Build pipeline, dependency on unreleased package

My team is currently making some changes to our solution structure. Before the change we basically had a single solution file with about 40 different projects. Most of these projects are libraries that are consumed by a handful of applications. To…
Rik D
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Deploying appconfigs to different environments

I have a project on Azure DevOps that uses an appconfig. The appconfig holds sensetive data like usernames and passwords and is committed empty to the repo. I have to deploy the project on two different environments that need two different…
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Should powershell be used to develop a whole application?

We are automating the testing on an Web ERP solution (Dynamics) through a tool (RSAT, which uses selenium) provided by the developer of the ERP (Microsoft). The RSAT has a list of instructions to do some actions on the pages and it takes the values…
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Azure DevOps Pipeline CI good pratice when creating it's own pipeline?

I'm using Azure DevOps Pipeline for CI and CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment). I realize there are many ways to define de build Pipeline. Let me explain with examples: For one of my project I started by creating 2 Pipelines. Both…
Bastien Vandamme
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Create a Azure Pipeline for staging then production environments

I have a question about best practice and Azure Pipeline. I have a web site (ASP.NET API old version) I need to publish on 2 environments staging production I think this schema is classic. At the beginning I decided to create one build in release…
Bastien Vandamme
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Git Branching and Merging Strategy for Feature-Oriented Release Process

We have multiple developers contributing to a project, using Git as our repository. We have a QA branch that matches our QA environment and a master branch that matches production. Features can be in QA for weeks, because other more urgent requests…
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Azure DevOps for multiple small projects

We are a software development company with less than 10 employees. Each employee may be a part of multiple projects. Also, the project manager may look after multiple projects as well. We use Azure DevOps to keep track of work items in each project.…
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Where should I start with an Integration Test for a Legacy Software in .NET?

Currently, I'm planning a new project of CI/CD with Azure DevOps (with Git, already committed) for an old Solution, which contains 17 C# projects. Technically, we have access to the source code and it's required to write all Unit Tests (since it…
Federico Navarrete
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How do we evaluate pipelines efficiency? (build, release, test etc)

I am trying to generate a metric on how our current pipeline is performing, and seem to missing a framework for this, or feel like such a framework/metric already exist? I am only interested in in the performance of pipeline, so I can give it a…
Carlton Banks
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Azure Pipeline variable groups vs. YAML templates

I am writing an Azure Pipeline framework in YAML which will be used on multiple projects, each with its own environment variables. I am now wondering whether the best option is to define these variables in variable groups or to use YAML…
Fredrik Bakke
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Azure DevOps Change nuget.config in CI/CD process

I'm currently working on a project which uses azure function apps, we also create a data access layers for each function app which are built as nuget packages and are then published to a private nuget feed. For the function apps, we have three…
morris295
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TFS/Azure DevOps - how to use security to enforce triaging of new PBIs & bugs

I am looking for a way to configure TFS to enforce triaging of PBIs and bugs. At present, although "proper" practises have been discussed and agreed many times, they are not followed reliably, so I am looking for a way to enforce them via TFS…
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