TFS 2015: update Associated Items on successful build

Question

I have a TFS Build 2015 definition (not XAML). And I have a set of work items (bugs, for example). They linked to changesets which are associated to the build. When my build is finished successfully I can see these items on the build Summary page in the "Associated work items" section.

The question is: I want to change status of all these items automatically to something like "Ready for QA".

How can I achieve this?

I don't need a detailed explanation, just some quick directions, where to look, how to grab a TFS build related information in a script or something like this.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

According to your description, you need to change the work item to a customize state such as "Ready for QA".

To achieve this you need to use a powershell script in the build pipeline, obtain the base addresses of your team collection and get the work items related to the build, then use the Rest API to Update work items,such as system.state field.

For detail steps please refer below two blogs, even it's updating Integration Build value, the same mechanism:

• UPDATE WORK ITEMS WITH BUILD NUMBER DURING VNEXT BUILDS
• Build association with work Items in vNext