Maintain a build strategy

In this post, I will share my study notes that I took while preparing for the exam Azure AZ400 “Maintain a build strategy”.

Monitor pipeline health (failure rate, duration, flaky tests)

Azure DevOps offers great reporting tools that allow identifying when pipelines can be optimised.

The reports are accessible from the Analytics tab of a pipeline definition.

Three types of reports are available:

• the pipeline pass rate
• the test pass rate
• the pipeline duration

The pipeline pass rate report provides three insights:

The pass rate trend helps to identify changes in trends.

The failure trend helps to track failing runs.

Failed Runs for all stages provides a breakdown of the failures by the task that caused the failure.

The pipeline duration report offers insights on the duration of builds. It also offers a breakdown of the time taken by the pipeline by task.