Skytap and Crosslake Technologies share our ideas for how to improve software quality and velocity with automated creation and management of on-demand, scalable test environments. We focus on cloud-enabled ALM through the joint use of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Skytap.

1. Tony Perez, Skytap, Cloud Solutions Architect
James Waletzky, Crosslake, Partner
The Path to Continuous
Integration with Team
Foundation Server & Skytap

2. What’s in it for you?
How does Team Foundation Server help me?
• Learn how TFS handles build and lab management, and enables CI and automated testing workflows
How do I get started integrating Skytap and TFS?
• Learn how to install and configure the Skytap TFS automation pack
How does the build-deploy-test (BDT) workflow work with TFS and Skytap?
• We will take a short trip through an end-to-end BDT scenario using Skytap
What kind of help is available for Skytap customers?
• Hear some pointers on getting started, sprinkled with a few best practices

3. AGENDA
TFS Build-Deploy-Test Overview
Building in TFS
Getting Started with the Skytap TFS Automation Pack
Appendix:
Installing, Troubleshooting
Who is Crosslake & what is Skytap?

4. Skytap & Crosslake

5. Business Impact:
• Enhance product value and quality
• Increase engineering effectiveness
• Reduce time to market
• Implement best practices and tools
• Deliver measurable improvements
Best
Practices
Human
Performance
Improvement
ALM
Deployment
Engineering
System
Assessment &
Improvement Plan
ProcessPeople
Tools

6. Skytap at a Glance
Our Company:
• Focus on building better software
faster
• 20,000 users
• Founded in 2006
Our Technology:
Skytap provides SaaS-based dev/test
environments. We remove the
inefficiencies and constraints that
companies have within their SDLC.

7. Build-Deploy-Test & TFS

8. • Unit test
• Continuous integration
Develop
• Clean environment
(build machine)
• Binaries dropped
Build • Setup/Tear down test
environments
• Copy/Install/Configure
Deploy
• Integration test
Test
Would you rather do this manually or automate?
Build-Deploy-Test (BDT)

9. TFS BDT Architecture
MTM comes with VS
Ultimate, VS Premium
and VS Test Professional

10. Skytap and TFS

11. Skytap Cloud Test Environments
• Mult-VM environments with software defined
networking
• Spin up test environments on demand and in under
a minute
• Create environments only when needed, pay for
what you use
• Create golden templates of build & test environments
• Create fresh instances of environments from golden
templates
• Create multiple copies of the environment in parallel
• Save failures frozen in time templates for further investigation
• Run application components in Skytap Cloud or on
premise
• Connect components together using self-service VPN
connections
• Use projects to enable teams to work together
• Use one-click publish URLs to share resource
outside your organization
Create Custom Environments
Repeatability
Debugability
Flexibility
Collaboration

12. Skytap and TFS Overview

13. Prerequisites
Team Foundation Server 2012 or 2013
• Running on-premise or in Skytap
• If on-premise, VPN to Skytap configured
TFS Build components
• Build controllers
• Build agents (2 or more)
TFS Test components
• Test controllers
• Test agents

14. Execution of BDT with Skytap

15. DEMO
Setup the Skytap Test Environment – Part 1
Scenario:
Skytap TFS configuration is in place. Set up the test environment via TFS Lab Management where the bits
will be deployed and automated tests executed.
Process:
1. Overview of Skytap environment (including plug-in configuration)
2. Instantiate a Skytap configuration that contains the test environment (VMs)
3. Ensure the network settings are set to be visible to other networks
4. Save the test configuration as a template
5. Connect the test configuration to the TFS configuration network
6. From a VM in the TFS configuration, ping the test machines to ensure connected

16. DEMO
Setup the Skytap Test Environment – Part 2
Scenario:
Skytap TFS configuration is in place. Set up the test environment via TFS Lab
Management where the bits will be deployed and automated tests executed.
Process:
1. Create a new test environment in Microsoft Test Manager Lab Center
2. Set up the administrative user for machine communication
• Same username/password combination on all machines
3. Initiate the creation of the test environment
4. Create a set of test settings to reflect an automated BDT scenario
5. Shutdown the test configuration (the build will re-create it)
6. Disconnect the network

17. DEMO
Create & Execute a TFS Build Definition
Scenario:
Test environments are now set up. Add a build definition to TFS to kick off the overall build-deploy-test
workflow.
Process:
1. Create a new build definition based on the Skytap build process template XAML
2. Fill in key parameters:
• TFS Configuration ID
• Skytap Login ID
• Skytap Login Key
• Test Environment Configuration ID
3. Queue a new manual build

18. Final Thoughts
Additional Links & Resources
• Skytap Automation Pack for TFS Whitepaper
• How to Set up and Use the Skytap Automation Pack for TFS
• Crosslake Services: http://www.crosslaketech.com
• Skytap Trial Account: http://www.skytap.com/free-trial
• Contact Information:
• Tony Perez (Skytap): TPerez@Skytap.com
• James Waletzky (Crosslake): JamesW@CrosslakeTech.com

19. Watch the Full Webinar
To watch, click here:
http://j.mp/crosslake