If you need to collaboratively work together and share code, plan and manage your user stories and development tasks, track the progress of your features and bugs, all in an agile environment, then Azure DevOps is perhaps one of the best solutions you can find in the cloud.

It supports many different programming languages (C#, Java, JavaScript, and more), various development tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, and more), and is scalable to any team size.

Additionally, it is free of charge for up to five users in a private team project, which is very helpful for trying out the examples shown in this book.

Azure DevOps provides the following main features:

• Work items and the Kanban board: Plan and assign work and tasks.
• Source code management: Share code in a VCS.
• Testing: Create and execute test plans containing test cases.
• Azure Artifacts: Share your own NuGet package or any other packages.
• Build pipeline: Build code for creating application packages.
• Release pipeline: Deploy application packages to different release targets.