AZ-400: Integrate pipelines with work item tracking tools

Cross-service integration overview

• Azure DevOps supports multiple integration points across each of the major services—Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Test Plans
• Azure DevOps Collaboration Features:
  • mentions: mention a team member or a whole team within a work item
  • ID (link to work item): link work items from commits, PRs, and changesets (more info)
  • Teams: separate the customization and configuration of tools by team
  • Alerts: team, project, or organization-level alerts when changes occur to work items, code reviews, PRs, builds, and more
  • Summaries by email
  • Wiki: embed Azure Boards query results in a wiki
• Azure Repos Features:
  • Git development from within work items
  • Automatically link and transition work items with Git commits
  • Check for linked work items in a Git branch
  • Auto complete work items with PRs
  • View list of code objects a single work item is linked to
• Azure Pipelines Features:
  • Manually link work items to builds
  • automatically create Integrated in build links to work items linked to a branch, commit, or pull request associated with a pipeline (classic or YAML)
  • automatically create Integrated in release stage links to work items linked to a branch, commit, or pull request associated with a release
  • View and open list of work items linked to a Classic or YAML pipeline
  • View list of build or release objects a single work item is linked to a release
  • Create a work item on failure
  • Report deployment status