TeamCity MSBuild tasks

For our latest product, we’ve switched over from CC.NET to the excellent TeamCity continuous integration server from JetBrains, which, as of version 3, is free for small projects like ours. One of the nice aspects of TC is that it’s very easy to publish data from your build (such as number of unit test passes / failures) so that it gets picked up by the TC server.

To help us along, we’ve written a few simple MSBuild tasks which do just that. We’ve created a sourceforge project for them, but until that’s activated, you can download them here.

There are currently 3 tasks:

MSBuild.TeamCity.Tasks.TeamCityAppendStatusText

Appends text to be displayed in the build status when the build is complete - e.g. “Tests Passed: 3, Tests Failed: 1″

Example usage:

<TeamCityAppendStatusText TeamCityInfoPath="$(teamcity_build_checkoutDir)\teamcity-info.xml" Value="Tests Passed: 3" />
<TeamCityAppendStatusText TeamCityInfoPath="$(teamcity_build_checkoutDir)\teamcity-info.xml" Value="Tests Failed: 1" />

MSBuild.TeamCity.Tasks.TeamCityAddStatistic

Adds a build statistic that can be picked up for graphing by configuring TeamCity’s main-config.xml (see here).

Example usage:

<TeamCityAddStatistic TeamCityInfoPath="$(teamcity_build_checkoutDir)\teamcity-info.xml" Key="TestsPassed" Value="3" />
<TeamCityAddStatistic TeamCityInfoPath="$(teamcity_build_checkoutDir)\teamcity-info.xml" Key="TestsFailed" Value="1" />

MSBuild.TeamCity.Tasks.TeamCityAddStatisticList

Variation on the above which allows you to add multiple statistics at once. Each key/ value pair is delimited by ‘;’

Example usage:

<TeamCityAddStatisticList TeamCityInfoPath="$(teamcity_build_checkoutDir)\teamcity-info.xml" KeyValuePairs="TestsPassed=3;TestsFailed=1" />

Thats pretty much it for now as  that’s all we’re using. I’ll post a follow up shortly to show how you can use these to pull in results from MbUnit tests.

If you missed the link above, you can download the tasks here.