{"id":8114,"date":"2019-10-10T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T13:11:10","slug":"software-development-process-made-easy-with-azure-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/software-development-process-made-easy-with-azure-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Development Process Made Easy With Azure DevOps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software development is a tricky business! At first, it seems like everything will work out, and your software development team will find a solution for any sort of problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But soon you realize that even good ideas fail. You find yourself in a situation where, in order to continue project development, you need to design software patches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, you and your team no longer think about a normal solution and just want to assemble something that works. In worst cases, you need to abandon the existing process, and start everything from scratch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An ugly truth isn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What if you get an efficient platform to manage everything you need to develop your <\/span>custom software application<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we will discuss how Microsoft Azure DevOps can help you plan smarter, develop better, and deliver faster, thereby enable you to easily manage your software development process<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Software-Development-Process-Made-Easy-With-Azure-DevOps\"<\/p>\n

The rising prominence of DevOps has certainly given an extraordinary thrill and excitement to the IT community. From start-ups to SMEs to large companies, more and more organizations are implementing <\/span>DevOps methodology<\/strong> directly into their core fundamental strategies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you observe Google Trends for the topic of DevOps, you can see that it has experienced 669% increase in interest since 2014 (if you look closer, you can even see that the interest in DevOps has increased by 28% from March 2019 to October 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Microsoft\u2019s Version of DevOps<\/b><\/h2>\n

With an idea to embrace the DevOps concept and provide software development teams all the necessary tools required at various stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC), Microsoft unveiled Azure DevOps last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through its powerful ecosystem of services, the DevOps powered <\/span>Microsoft Azure Solution<\/strong> has helped a number of organizations plan work, collaborate on code development, and release software projects quickly with high-quality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If we check out Google Trends for the topic of Azure DevOps, this is what we get:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A whopping 232% increase of interest in just one year! This clearly proves that organizations are increasingly adopting Azure DevOps.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Azure DevOps?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Microsoft Azure DevOps is an ecosystem of DevOps-focused services and tools that work with any language, targeting any platform. It helps software development teams to plan out projects with agile tools, manage code using Git, and deploy code harnessing the potential of the Continuous Integration \/ Continuous Delivery (CI\/CD) system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In simple words, Azure DevOps is an end-to-end solution for <\/span>software development companies<\/strong><\/a> that are seeking an enterprise-grade tool chain \u2013 it helps you stay informed on all the important activities related to your <\/span>application development<\/span> project with notifications and alerts on work items, pull requests, code commits, build and release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Software developers can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services (previously known as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)) or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server (previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS)).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Managing the Software Development Process with Azure DevOps<\/b><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s have a look at the services and some of the key features of Azure DevOps that help you easily manage your software development process: <\/span><\/p>\n

Services<\/b><\/h3>\n

As discussed previously, with Azure DevOps, you get access to an integrated set of services that help you manage your software projects, right from planning to development to testing to deployment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the list of services associated with Azure DevOps:<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Pipelines:<\/strong> Continuously build, test and deploy to any platform and cloud<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Boards:<\/strong> Use agile tools to plan, track and discuss work across your teams<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Artifacts:<\/strong> Easily discover, install, and publish NuGet, npm, and Maven packages<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Repos:<\/strong> Get private Git repositories and code collaboration in the cloud<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Test Plans:<\/strong> Capture rich scenario data as you perform tests to make exposed defects actionable<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Azure DevOps also offers support for adding extensions and integrating with other standard services, such as: Campfire, Slack, Trello, SonarCloud, and more, and creating your own custom extensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Features<\/b><\/h3>\n

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