Background

I have been doing the regular maintenance in our Azure DevOps Pipelines of updating the versions of tasks. This usually means you perform one of the following actions

• Just increment the major version number in the YAML e.g task: MyTask@1 to task: MyTask@2 when there is a newer version of a task available. …

I have posted in the past about the issues a misconfigured cache can have in Azure DevOps Pipelines, or GitHub Actions. Well it caught me out again today, wasting a few hours of my time.

Today, I had a failing integration test in a CI/CD pipeline, but all the tests passed locally. The failing test was looking for a …

Introduction

I have been writing integration tests using MSTest recently and have encountered the need to control the level of parallelism required. MSTest, by default, runs your tests in parallel to maximise performance and reduce overall test execution time. This is great for independent unit tests, but it can …

Introduction

When building integration workflows with Azure Logic Apps Standard, there’s often a need to track custom business events that sit between pure technical telemetry and business process monitoring. Recently, while authoring a Logic App Standard workflow, I needed to track the total number of items …

The Issue

I recently had an issue trying to add a new Azure DevOps Pipeline Agent Pool to an existing Azure DevOps 2022 Server via the Team Project Collection Settings UI.

When tried to add the agent pool I got the error

Access denied needs Manage permissions to perform this action. For more information, contact the …

The Issue

I have been chasing what it turned out to be a non-existent fault when trying to ingest test code coverage data into our SonarQube instance.

I saw my ‘problem’ in a .NET 8.0 solution with XUnit v3 based unit tests, this solution was being built using this Azure DevOps Pipelines YAML

 - task: …