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Azure Boards for tracking

📖 Scenario: You are part of a small software team starting a new project. To keep track of tasks and bugs, you want to use Azure Boards, a tool that helps teams organize and track work.

🎯 Goal: Create a simple Azure Boards setup with a project, a work item type, and a query to track open bugs.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure DevOps project named SampleProject

Add a work item type called Bug with a title and description

Create a query named OpenBugs that filters bugs with state Active

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Teams use Azure Boards to track work progress, bugs, and tasks in software projects.

💼 Career

Knowing how to configure and use Azure Boards is essential for project managers, developers, and DevOps engineers.

1

Create Azure DevOps project

Create an Azure DevOps project named SampleProject using the Azure CLI command az devops project create --name SampleProject --process Agile.

Azure

# Use Azure CLI to create the project
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the Azure CLI command az devops project create with the --name and --process Agile parameters.

2

Add a Bug work item

Add a work item of type Bug with the title Sample Bug and description This is a test bug to the SampleProject using the Azure CLI command az boards work-item create.

Azure

az devops project create --name SampleProject --process Agile
# Create a Bug work item with title and description
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az boards work-item create with --project, --type, --title, --description, and --fields parameters.

3

Create a query for open bugs

Create a query named OpenBugs in SampleProject that filters work items of type Bug with state Active using the Azure CLI command az boards query create and a query text.

Azure

az devops project create --name SampleProject --process Agile
az boards work-item create --project SampleProject --type Bug --title "Sample Bug" --description "This is a test bug" --fields "System.State=Active"
# Create a query named OpenBugs filtering active bugs
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az boards query create with --project, --name, and --wiql parameters. The WIQL filters bugs with state Active.

4

Verify the query and work items

List the work items returned by the OpenBugs query in SampleProject using the Azure CLI command az boards query show and verify it includes the bug titled Sample Bug.

Azure

az devops project create --name SampleProject --process Agile
az boards work-item create --project SampleProject --type Bug --title "Sample Bug" --description "This is a test bug" --fields "System.State=Active"
az boards query create --project SampleProject --name OpenBugs --wiql "Select [System.Id], [System.Title], [System.State] From WorkItems Where [System.WorkItemType] = 'Bug' And [System.State] = 'Active'"
# Show the OpenBugs query results
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az boards query show with --project and --id to display query results.