Releasing a build to User Acceptance Testing

At the end of the build process, a deployable package file was uploaded to the build. This file can then be applied to your user acceptance test or sandbox server.

We can apply the package manually on the test server, but for LCS deployed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environments, this is always done via LCS. Any release to production must first be deployed to a sandbox server and marked as a release candidate.

Getting ready

In order to follow this recipe, we need to have an LCS Operations server deployed through LCS.

How to do it...

To apply the build to a test server, follow these steps:

1. Open the VSTS site, and then open your project and select Explorer from Build & Release.
2. Double-click on the build that you wish to deploy to UAT.
3. On the page that opens, select Artifacts, and click on Explore for the Packages artifact, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. In the Artifacts Explorer tab, expand the Packages node and click on the arrow icon next...