Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server (commonly abbreviated to TFS) is a Microsoft product that provides source code management (either with Team Foundation Version Control or Git), reporting, requirements management, project management (for both agile software development and waterfall teams), automated builds, lab management, testing and release management

capabilities.

It covers the entire application life cycle, and enables DevOps capabilities. TFS can be used as a back-end to numerous integrated development environments (IDEs) but is tailored for Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse on all platforms

Online vs On-premises

Team Foundation Server is available in two different forms: on-premises and online. The latter form is called Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online). The cloud service is backed by Microsoft’s cloud platform, Microsoft Azure.

It uses the same code as the on-premises version of TFS, with minor modifications, and implements the most recent features.

Visual Studio Team Services requires no setup. A user signs in using a Microsoft account to set up an environment, creating projects and adding team members. New features developed in short development cycles are added to the cloud version first. These features migrate to the on-premises version as updates, at approximately three-month intervals

Architecture

The following major features are included in Team Foundation Server:

• Version control, for managing source code and other deliverables that require versioning.

• Work item tracking, for keeping track of such things as defects, requirements, tasks, and scenarios.

• Project management functions, which allow the shaping of a team project based on a user-specifiable software process, and which enable planning and tracking using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project.

• Team build, for enabling a common process for building executable products.

• Data collection and reporting, which aid in the assessment of a team project’s state, based on information gleaned from Team Foundation Server tools.

• The Team Project Portal, which provides a central point of communication for a team project packaged as a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site.

• Team Foundation Shared Services, which provide a number of common infrastructure services that invisible to end users but that are important to toolsmiths and extenders.

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