Continuous Conformance is an Azure DevOps extension which makes it easy to keep track of easily forgotten task during the software development life-cycle.

Using

A detailed description how to use this extension can be found in overview.md. You can follow the official description for installing extensions for Azure DevOps.

Build

Requirements

Mandatory

• Node.js v16.4.1 or newer
• GitVersion 5.6.10 (only required when you don't use the Visual Studio Dev-Container)

Recommended

• Docker
• Visual Studio Code

CLI

1. Clone the repository either via Visual Studio Code or command line:

git clone https://github.com/siemens/continuous-conformance

2. Restore dependencies:

npm i

3. Start the build:

gulp

Visual Studio Code

You can also open the repository in a Visual Studio DevContainer. In this case it's recommended to use a volume mount in order to improve the performance.

Debugging

You can start a local web-server which can be used to debug your local code by using webpack. The following command can be used together with the dev deployment. It will start a web server listening on https://localhost:44300

The dev deployment is configured to load the extension via this URL.

npm run serve:dev

Dependencies

The sample repository depends on a few Azure DevOps packages:

• azure-devops-extension-sdk: Required module for Azure DevOps extensions which allows communication between the host page and the extension iframe.
• azure-devops-extension-api: Contains REST client libraries for the various Azure DevOps feature areas.
• azure-devops-ui: UI library containing the React components used in the Azure DevOps web UI.

Some external dependencies:

• React - Is used to render the UI in the samples, and is a dependency of azure-devops-ui.
• TypeScript - Samples are written in TypeScript and complied to JavaScript
• SASS - Extension samples are styled using SASS (which is compiled to CSS and delivered in webpack js bundles).
• webpack - Is used to gather dependencies into a single javascript bundle for each sample.

References

The full set of documentation for developing extensions can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend.

Documentation

Further documentation regarding the development of this extension is available in the doc folder.

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

This project use the following license: MIT