Comments on: TeamCity MSBuild tasks

By: Alexander Groß

Alexander Groß — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:37:50 +0000

Hi Will,

I’ve ported your tasks over to NAnt (my preferred build tool) and added a couple of other (NAnt) tasks specific to TeamCity. Would you mind re-publishing them under a BSD license given that I credit your excellent work? Which form of commendation do you prefer?

Thanks,

Alex

By: Will

Will — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:09:56 +0000

Hi Korayem. Yes, the post assumes you already have TeamCity running your MbUnit tests and generating an HTML report. MBUnit ships with an MSBuild task which you can call to run your tests (http://docs.mbunit.com/help/html/MbUnitInAnAgileEnvironment/MbUnitAndMSBuild.htm). This generates an HTML report which you can include in you artifacts path so you get a test report with every build

Once you have that, you can use these MSBuild tasks to report information back to the TeamCity dashboard so you don’t have to dig into the artifacts to find out if the tests failed.

In our project, we have a “TeamCityBuild” MSBuild target which builds the project, runs the tests and writes to the teamcity-info file.

Hope this helps – please let me know if you’re still struggling.

By: Korayem

Korayem — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:40:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information. Please excuse my ignorance but I read this blog post and your forum post and still can’t figure out what to do exactly.

I understand that i have to configure the artifact to fetch the generated mbunit dll files, but then what?

By: Will

Will — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:34:24 +0000

Thanks Eugene – have fixed that link now.

By: Eugene Petrenko

Eugene Petrenko — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:05:20 +0000

Unfortunatly the link to the soureces is dead not. Is there any other way for achieving it. I believe it would be possible to posting those code in TeamCity plugins repository.

By: Brett Veenstra

Brett Veenstra — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:25:19 +0000

Great stuff here… I’m definitely interested in how you hooked this into your MSBuild script (although we’re going to use NANT for now).

By: Petar Petrov

Petar Petrov — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:04:23 +0000

Great article. Please provide a serie with more details on MSBuild, TeamCity and how to setup a new project.

By: Elizaveta

Elizaveta — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:30:25 +0000

Thank you so much for your positive feedback.

We are really glad you managed to implement custom builds’ data publishing and share your knowledge with others.

The JetBrains TeamCity Team