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Real-World DevOps on the MAUI Team - Episode 144

Azure DevOps Podcast

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:00:00 +0000

On today’s episode of the podcast, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by two special guests, Alex Blount and Sweekriti Satpathy. Alex is a Principal Software Engineer Manager on the Customer Engagement Team for the Microsoft Developer Edition, and Sweekriti is a Senior Software Engineer on the same team. In their conversation, Alex and Sweekriti discuss real-world DevOps on the MAUI team, how to get up and running with MAUI, a rundown of the products that the team uses (and how they’re configured), and much more. Topics of Discussion: [:14] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure, the new podcast Architect Tips, and Jeffrey’s offer to speak at virtual user groups. [1:26] About today’s episode. [1:46] Jeffrey welcomes Sweekriti Satpathy and Alex Blount to the podcast. [1:54] Alex shares about his career journey and current role with Microsoft. [3:48] Sweekriti shares about her career journey and current role within Microsoft. [5:16] About Sweekriti’s Learn TV show, Hello World. [5:42] Alex provides some backstory on what their team does. [9:22] Sweekriti shares her insights on migrating to .NET MAUI. [9:58] What do level three tests look like? Tests that have to take the user interface into account? What libraries and techniques are the teams using now to handle that? [13:23] Sweekriti’s insights around UI testing from a DevOps pipeline point of view. [18:14] Is this UI test library that Sweekiri spoke about a NuGet library? And what layer does it operate at? Is it on top of the emulator or does it not even need to spin up an emulator? [19:23] Alex highlights a common pitfall they often see customers fall into with regards to testing, and how to address it. [21:28] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [21:59] A lot of developers use the technique of taking a screenshot for every action in the user interface (in Azure Pipelines, testing in Selenium, etc.) Is this natively built into App Center? [23:44] For the release candidate of a MAUI app, what format does it take? And where’s the right place to archive those? [28:05] Sweekriti shares an important aspect of how these tasks work. [29:20] Are there any pipeline configurations that are in repositories that can be looked at today? Sweekriti offers some advice on how to get your environment up and running with MAUI. [32:05] Alex shares his insights on telemetry. [34:24] Sweekriti’s insights on telemetry. [35:00] As far as product strategy, is Microsoft aligning App Service for mobile telemetry and application insights to serverside telemetry? [26:45] Skeekriti shares her excitements around .NET MAUI and everything becoming more streamlined. [37:16] Is anyone writing an early release book on .NET MAUI development? [37:59] Where to find resources related to .NET MAUI. [40:22] Jeffrey thanks Sweekriti and Alex for joining the podcast and sharing their insights. Mentioned in this Episode: <a href="http://architecttips.clearmeasure.com/"> Architect Tips</a> — New video podcast! <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/devops/?&OCID=AID736756_SEM_7eul5uID"> Azure DevOps</a> <a href="https://www.clear-measure.com/">Clear Measure</a> (Sponsor) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/NET-DevOps-Azure-Developers-Architecture/dp/1484253426"> .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo</a> — Available on Amazon! <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/jeffrey-palermo/net-devops-for-azure-ebook-edition/ebook/product-24094762.html"> bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook</a> — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ROXy08zc-qTA0-3GAQDLw"> Jeffrey Palermo’s Youtube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreypalermo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter</a> — Follow to stay informed about future events! <a href="https://blog.stevensanderson.com/">The Azure DevOps Podcast’s Twitter: @AzureDevOpsShow</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-blount-34508625/">Alex Blount’s LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/tv/"> Microsoft Learn TV</a> <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-platform-app-ui/"> .NET MAUI</a> <a href="https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin">Xamarin</a> <a href="https://appcenter.ms/">App Center</a> <a href="https://www.selenium.dev/">Selenium</a> <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/artifacts/"> Azure Artifacts</a> <a href="https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples">MAUI Samples | GitHub</a> <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/ecosystems/xamarin?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml"> Build and deploy Xamarin apps with a pipeline | Microsoft Docs</a> <a href="https://github.com/Redth/dotnet-maui-check"> .NET MAUI Check | GitHub</a> <a href="https://github.com/davidortinau/WeatherTwentyOne">Weather ‘21 | GitHub</a> <a href="http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/david-ortinau-on-multi-platform-app-development-using-net-maui-episode-142"> Azure DevOps Podcast Ep. 142: “David Ortinau on Multi-Platform App Development Using .NET MAUI”</a> Want to Learn More? 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