Mobile DevOps with Xamarin and Visual Studio Team Service
summary
Shows a working mobile DevOps pipeline using Xamarin, Visual Studio Team Services/TFS and HockeyApp with automated CI/CD, unit and UI tests, and releases to stores. Demonstrates Xamarin Test Cloud (~2,500 physical devices), a sample app run with 289 device‑minutes of testing reduced to a 40‑minute CI job, and Mac build agents for iOS signing. Explains webhooks to Bitrise/Jenkins, crash reports creating VSTS bugs, and consolidation into Visual Studio Mobile Center with CI builds trigger tests and deploy to HockeyApp/Play Store.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:49What is DevOps
- 1:32DevOps tools
- 4:08DevOps journey story
- 8:35Visual Studio Team Service outage
- 9:52DevOps practices
- 10:43Why DevOps
- 12:15Mobile Quality Challenges
- 14:21Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
- 15:15Visual Studio Team Service
- 15:54Xamarin Platform
- 18:05Xamarin Test Cloud
- 19:30Big Distribution
- 19:43Telemetry
- 23:16Backlog
- 24:11Boards
- 26:07Import code
- 27:42Build
- 33:02Set up a different build
- 34:11Add a new build
- 35:53Service hooks
- 36:56Device Cloud
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