As part of our ongoing commitment to Azure DevOps, we’d like to share with you some key features we’re planning on delivering over the next quarter. Each of these highlighted features includes links to our public roadmap project where you’ll find more details on the item and where you can check its status.
General
- Token lifecycle management
- In Q3, we are adding REST APIs for managing the lifecycle of personal access tokens. This will include the ability to create new personal access tokens; and to rotate, renew, and revoke existing ones.
- Simplified firewall rule creation with Azure DevOps Service Tag and Static IP
- This feature was covered in the Q2 quarterly blog update, but due to shifting priorities in Q2, we did not finish the work. Follow the link to learn more about the feature.
Azure Boards
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In Q3, we are increasing our investments in Boards to provide a first class roadmap/timeline feature. Our work will focus on improving and enhancing the capabilities of Delivery Plans. Q3 will be the first wave of investments where the focus will be bringing Delivery Plans into the core product (instead of an extension). The second wave of features will be focused on new functionality and value that have been long time requests from our customers.
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Q3 enhancements include:
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Bring Delivery Plans into the core Azure Boards product instead of having to install an extension
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Allow work items to span iteration boundaries
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Support a minimum of 25 team backlogs on a single delivery plan
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Filter by Parent
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Give stakeholders read-only access to delivery plans
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Late Q3 and early Q4 features include:
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Display rollup information on the work item cards
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Provide a condensed view for better viewing of large plans
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Provide a dependency tracking experience across work items with predecessor and successor link types
Azure Pipelines
- Elastic self-hosted agent pools
- In Q2, we rolled out a preview of scale-set agents – our first version of elastic agents based on VM scale sets. Since then, the adoption of this feature has been gradually increasing. Thank you to all of you that have provided feedback during the preview period. Based on the feedback, here is our plan for Q3:
- We will add scheduling to the scale-up operation so that you do not have to run the same number of agents during peak hours and after peak hours
- We will roll out elastic agents that run in containers on a Kubernetes cluster. Besides being able to use your infrastructure more efficiently, this will also improve the speed of scaling operations
- Finally, we will improve the diagnosability of elastic agents by exposing background logs and possibly a few more knobs for you to control
Azure Test Plans
- New Test Plans page
- The new persona-based Test Plans page will be introduced as the default experience with a revamped user interface that provides new views and toolsets for tasks such as authoring, tracking, and executing. The new page is clutter-free and integrates seamlessly with the rest of Azure DevOps. As an addition to the pre-existing page, the new page brings in the following new capabilities:
- Copy Test Plans: This feature allows the user to copy/clone a Test Plan within a project
- Import test suites: You can now reuse the suites which are created already and import them into the current test suite/test plan using Import Test cases
- Copy/clone test cases: You can now copy or clone a test case across test suites, test plans, or projects
- View linked items: For each test case, you can view the linked bugs, test suites, or requirements
- Import/Export test plans from/to CSV files: With the help of this feature you can export the existing test cases to Excel CSV file, make changes to the CSV file and then import the file back into the suite. There are many other use cases of this functionality. New test plans page – Azure Test Plans
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