How to test Visual Studio Team Services (vsts) extension without uploading

Question

i want to develop a vsts extension.

the describes process of a development cycle is:

1. develop
2. package
3. publish
4. upload
5. test

this sound a litte cumbersome to me as it takes a lot of time to test the development.

is there any way to speed up a development cycle?

is there any way to mock a TFS?

Answer 1

No, you can’t, the extension need to be deployed to VSTS, then you can test it.

There is a VSTS Extension Tasks extension that can package and publish easily.