Enhancing Code Quality with Team Project Check-in Policies

When you use Visual Studio Premium, you can create check-in policies for your team projects. to enforce practices that lead to better code and more efficient group development. Check-in policies are rules that are set at the team project level and enforced on developer computers before code is allowed to be checked in.

There are four team project check-in policies that you can specify:

• Builds   Requires that build breaks that were created during a build must be fixed before a new check-in.
• Code Analysis   Requires that code analysis is run before check-in.
• Testing Policy   Requires that check-in tests are completed before check-in.
• Work Items   Requires that one or more work items be associated with the check- in.

Note: To use check-in policies, you must be connected to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.