TFS 2010: how to reject gated checkin based on code duplication metric?

Question

I'm running Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010, and using it to build a .NET 4.0 Solution.

I have enabled gated checkins, and we run our tests as part of the build, so the server rejects any checkin that causes the tests to break.

However, I want to take this a step further and reject checkins that contain more than a certain proportion of code duplication.

Is there a tool for TFS 2010, or perhaps an existing feature that I've missed, that would allow me to do this?

Answer 1

That is a fantastic idea!

I have not heard of this actualy being built, but the guys over at the Community TFS Build Extensions would be best placed to point you in the right direction.

I can imagine that this Activity would be quite dificult to build :) and you may not want to tackle it yourself. I would make a request on that project.