- It was very easy to configure automated deployments to Azure
- The performance of web portal ranged from acceptable to painfully slow.
- The UI is decent and it’s easy to execute all the basic tasks like add user story, add bug, look up a build
- Burndown chart worked out of the box
- Scrum board is simple and does the job
- Builds would take up to couple of minutes to start even if the build queue was empty
- Total build time was a bit unpredictable, ranged from 60s to 160s for the same code.
- Adding support for nUnit was more hassle than I anticipated
- Story boarding in PowerPoint is not integrated with TFS so you can’t push files directly from PowerPoint to TFS
- There is no Wiki
- Build log is as “useful” as it was in TFS 2010
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Quick overview of TFS Preview
I spent last week playing with shiny/new Web technologies and I needed a place where I could store my todo list and keep my code. I could’ve used Git + Trello but I wanted to give TFS Preview a try so I created a project there, converted my todo list into user stories and connected my repo with my Azure account for automated deployments. After a week of using TFS Preview this is what I’ve learnt:
You actually can specify how many builds you want to keep. For some reason when I clicked on the number of builds to preserve it didn't change from a label into a drop down list.
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Hi Pawel
ReplyDeleteGreat constructive suggestions in that post. Any chance you could re-order them to be in the order of pain... or order of importance?
Adam
www.adamcogan.com
Glad you liked it.
ReplyDeleteIt would be hard to apply such an order because my experiment was not a real project. I can imagine that unpredictable build time can be annoying if you have a team of several people but it's not really an issue for one person. Same applies to lack of Wiki. If you are Scrum master then the performance of the portal is might be an issue but as a developer you are not affected that much.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI have a few project on it, It's just great but it's not very practical when service is down for maintenance or if you have to work temporary disconnected. TFS is very good with constant and perfect connexion, but the client part need some optimization for the online service. Open a file for edit when service is unavailable can't take one minute or more...