How do we deliver the applications we build?

The Toolset

Subversion

trac

TeamCity

MSDeploy

NUnit & Selenium

Nuget for package management

Subversion Branching Strategy

• Documented branching and releasing process
• Branch for feature development, branch for release candidate, trunk latest development code.
• Clearly defined naming conventions

Defining the deployment pipeline

• TeamCity build and run tests.
• TeamCity + MSDeploy for automatic deployment to multiple environments.

Automated Testing

Dedicated selenium machine for browser regression testing.

Any unit tests run after every build.

Focus on TeamCity

Quick Peek

Conventions & Structure

• Numbered Build Steps
• Parameterization
• Multiple VCS roots

• Auto Local Deployments
• Sub-Projects
• Post-Release Warm-up

Deployment Options

MSBuild.

MSDeploy.

FTP.

Nuget Package.

Built-in Package Management

• Internal Nuget Feed for Library Distribution.
• Twentysix Framework Packages.

What's Next

Further Process Automation

TeamCity Project and Build Step Creation.

Project automation.

• Branch creation.
• Branch site provisioning.

Better Test Coverage

Regression Test Script Automation - Telerik TestStudio, Selenium Browser Plugins.

Utilizing BrowserStack for cloud testing.

Visual Regression Testing - Wraith, Huxley, PhantomCSS.

Azure

Automatic Provisioning.

BoxStarter

Chocolatey machine package manager.

c:\> cinst package-name

Check it out at boxstarter.org

vNext

Roslyn compiler, portability, dynamic compilation.

.NET Framework as packages.

Server optimized versions of .NET.