TFVC Integration with Jira and Jenkins
The integration of Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) with Jira and Jenkins gives the project management team complete control over the codes being committed in the source code repository. It also creates complete traceability for all workitems in Jira. With complete traceability for each workitem in the ecosystem, it is easier for enterprises to fulfil compliance requirements.
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TFVC, Jira, and Jenkins Integration Overview
In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, the cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements.
Best-of-breed systems such as Jira, Jenkins, and TFVC bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. When TFVC is integrated with Jira and Jenkins, all stakeholders have real-time visibility into the commits made by the development team. It is also easier to enforce authentic commits against each work item and access the changes/edits made to the commit files from Jira itself.
How TFVC, Jira, and, Jenkins integration is beneficial for an enterprise
- Track commit volume, track commit trends and edits/changes to commit files in real time
- Enforce authentic commits to make sure each commit is happening against a scheduled and open workitem
- Eliminate manual effort to close Jira workitem by automating the state transition on TFVC commit
With TFVC, Jira, and Jenkins, enterprises can:
How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates TFVC, Jira, and Jenkins
OpsHub Integration Manager integrates TFVC, Jira, and Jenkins bi-directionally. It ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All the details related to a commit made against a work-item in Jira can be tracked from Jira itself. For example, for each commit that development team makes in TFVC, TFVC synchronizes a ‘commit entity’ linked to the specific requirement id back to Jira.
Popularly synchronized entities
Use Case: TFVC integration with Jira and Jenkins
Problem statement: No control on backlogs getting committed – therefore, anyone can commit on a defect that is not even present in the active sprint.
Solution: If Jira, TFVC, and Jenkins are integrated using OpsHub Integration Manager, then OpsHub Integration Manager can put a check that user can only commit on a defect that is present in active sprint.
- A developer works on a ‘defect’ in Jira and runs a test case against it. The test case passes.
- The developer then commits against the ‘defect’ in TFVC.
- As the ‘defect’ against which the developer has committed is not in active sprint, when Jenkins runs a pre-scheduled test on it, the commit fails.
- The status of the commit synchronizes to Jira.
Benefits of integration for TFVC and Jira users
TFVC users
- Each commit can be traced back to its respective workitem at any given point in time from TFVC itself
- Enforced checkpoints ensure that no mandatory steps/checks are missed while making a commit – this leads to high success rate for commits
Jira users
- Traceability for business requirements throughout the ALM tool chain
- Direct visibility into customer issues and their priorities
- Visibility into the volume, quality of commits, and commit trends in real-time