Reusing Steps in Azure DevOps Build Pipelines with YAML Templates

Azure DevOps allows us to create yaml build pipelines. If you use yaml build pipelines you may have realized, there are repetitive steps which can be reused in multiple build pipelines. You can create a yaml template with include all the repetitive steps and reuse that template with in other yaml file which defines a build pipelines. This post will explain how to create a yaml template and use it in a pipeline.

Following is the yaml script which doesn't use templates. It has all the steps in the same yaml file which makes a script not manageable.

Resolving "user lacks permissions" in NuGet push task of Azure Pipelines

This post will discuss the issue you might get when trying to push the nuget package to the Azure DevOps Artifact feed using the build pipeline.

pre requisites: Azure DevOps arifacts feed
Let’s get started.

• You can implement the build pipeline to pack and push the nuget package to the the Azure DevOps nuget feed as explained in this post.Using NuGet Packages as Azure DevOps Artifacts Once you configured the build pipeline, it will look as follows.
  

Setting up Multiple YAML Builds in the Same Azure Git Repo With Path Filters

Azure DevOps has mainly two ways of creating build definitions to build your code. You can use either classic editor or YAML scripts to create a build. You can write YAML scripts to create various types of builds according to your project requirements. This blog post explains how to write YAML scripts to setting up different YAML builds in the same repo.

Pre-requisites : Azure DevOps project with multiple solutions in the same repo

Let's get started.

Automated Cross Browser Testing with LambdaTest and Azure DevOps

Testing is very important process of the software development life-cycle which improve the quality of the software product by identifying issues of the software in various pre-release stages. Cross browser, device testing is important to verify application performance in different browsers and devices.  Hence, test teams use both manual and automated test mechanisms to perform test activities. This post explains how to perform automated cross browser, device testing with LambdaTest and Azure DevOps.

Pre-requisites: Selenium script which use LambdaTest selenium grid
                            Azure DevOps project

Attach UI/Functional Test Run Video to Tests in Azure DevOps

When you have Automated test scripts integrated with Azure DevOps pipelines and run test scenarios using Test client machine, you can’t see what actually happens inside the test client machine. You only get the test run results at the end of the test run with all necessary details as execution time, failure test cases with failure reasons. To get more detail of the test scripts, we can attach screen shots and videos to the Azure DevOps pipelines test result section. This post explains how we can add test run video to the Azure DevOps pipeline.

Getting started with Web Performance Test Scenarios

Web Performance and Load Test is important part of the test cycle which help to verify the performance of the web application under load. Visual studio is one of the well known tool for  Load and Performance test.Hence let's try to learn how to work with web performance test with Visual Studio in this post.

• Create New Project. Go to File-->New—>Project
• Popup window will open. Select Web Performance and Load Test Project from test projects section.
  

Resolving Windows Machine File Copy Task Failed With Access Denied Issue

Windows machine file copy task in Azure DevOps pipeline is used to copy files to remote windows machines. In this blog we are going to discuss the access denied issue which might occur in this task. When we use this task in the deployment pipeline to copy automation scripts to test client machine, suddenly, deployment pipeline started failing with an access denied issue as stated below. Let’s look at how it was resolved to which might help you as well if you run into the same problem.

Using NuGet Packages as Azure DevOps Artifacts

When we work with Azure DevOps deployment pipelines, we have several options to select the build artifacts. Most common way is selecting the build artifacts published in the build pipeline. Other than this we can publish the artifacts as NuGet packages and save in the Azure DevOps Artifacts feeds. This post will explain how to create a NuGet feed, build and push NuGet packages using an Azure DevOps build pipeline to the feed. Finally, we will discuss how to deploy artifacts packaged as the NuGet packages using Azure DevOps deployment pipelines.