Notes from Tech Ed 2011 India - 2

TFS: Continuous Global Delivery, presented by Vinay Badami and following notes were taken from the session.

• Supports client installations- Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Supports 64 bit architecture
• Supports Java development within Eclipse(using Team Explorer Everywhere 2010)

Build Automation

• Integrate early, integrate often
• Continuous integration
• Builds on every Check-in
• Gated check-in - Only if build succeeds the code gets checked-in to the source code repository.
• Rolling builds to control frequency.

Branches and visualization

• Visualize integration across all branches
• Track the branches and change set.

Integrates with other version control systems and bug tracking systems using TFS Integration platform