Build Scenario Frame

Categories

• Administration
• Branching
• Check-in Policies
• Continuous Integration Builds
• Customization
• Deployment
• Performance
• Projects
• Reporting
• Scheduled Builds
• Test Driven Development
• Work Items

Administration

• Build admin migrates existing build architecture and scripts to Team Build
• Build admin creates a new build
• Build admin deletes an existing build
• Build admin changes build details (output location, build server, etc.)

Branching

• Development team creates a new branch to isolate development, does not include build types
• Development team creates a new branch to isolate development, including build types
• Development team retires a branch which is no longer needed

Check-in Policies

• Development team creates a check-in policy to improve check-in quality
• Development team creates a check-in policy to associate work items with the check-in and therefore the build

Continuous Integration Builds

• Build lab sets up continuous integration (CI) builds
• Build lab sets up a rolling build to improve performance of CI builds

Customization

• Development team modifies TFSBuild.proj to customize the build
• Development team uses a custom post-build step to build an installer project
• Development team uses MS Build Toolkit Extras to build a .NET 1.1 application
• Development team uses a custom pre-build step to build a project that has dependencies to another project
• Build lab sets up workspace mapping to get and build a subset of the tree

Deployment

• Build lab deploys a build server on the application-tier server
• Build lab deploys a build server to a separate machine
• Remote team deploys a remote build server

Performance

• Build lab uses incremental builds to improve build performance
• Build lab deploys multiple build servers to improve build performance

Projects

• Build lab reduces build breaks
• Build lab sends notification whenever a new build is ready
• Build lab builds an ASP.NET application
• Build lab builds a .NET 2.0 application
• Build lab builds a .NET 1.1 application
• Build lab builds a VB6 application
• Developer uses team build locally
• A developer subscribes to build email events
• Build lab changes the reported build quality

Reporting

• Build lab sets up a web site where development team can see build information
  • Daily build
  • Latest internal dogfood build
  • Latest beta build
  • Latest release
• Development team runs reports on build status
• Development team runs reports on build quality
• Test team runs reports on build test results

Scheduled Builds

• Build lab sets up daily builds
• Build lab sets up regular builds at an interval other than daily
• Build lab delivers regular builds in multiple flavors

Test-Driven Development

• Build lab runs BVTs with the build
• Build lab runs code analysis with the build

Work Items

• Build lab uses work items to track build breaks