Azure DevOps Server

Due to the complexity of the software development cycle, Microsoft lend a helping hand with the various integrated apps released over the years. Azure DevOps Server is one of the solutions designed to help developer teams automate the software delivery process. Not only are team able to organize their tasks based on roles, but the progress, results, tests, bugs and requirements can be tracked all across the board.

By far the most noteworthy features include the scalability, flexibility and numerous customization options. In fact, numerous users state that they are able to customize the workflows according to their practices and can still benefit from good standard process templates.

Thanks to the Pipelines, you can automate builds by a straightforward process that entails building, testing and deploying with a CI/CD that works with any platform, language and cloud. Moreover, you can connect to GitHub or similar Git providers to deploy them continuously.

A further advantage is that your team benefits from unlimited private repositories hosting and support that sales from a hobby project to an extremely large repo. As a result, you can perform more effective reviews and open thread discussions as well as continuous integration for each change you plan.

The tool can also come in handy for improving the code quality using planned and exploratory testing services for the software or services you are working on. You can capture rich scenario data while performing the tests and test the apps by executing these tests all across. During this process, you can create, host and share packages with the members of the team along with artifacts added to the pipelines with a single click.

Overall, Azure DevOps is a robust tool with unique features designed for application management. Without trying to diminish its functionality and usefulness, the tools embedded can be overwhelming to use if you do not have an advanced knowhow in management and workflow.