Better Reporting for CruiseControl.NET

Question

Hello,

Is there any way to generate the good error report from Cruise Control?

I like to get the following things in that report.

1. The line number of File that break the build
2. The name of developer who commited that file. (It should not be related to last person who committed because the build might be broken earlier before last person check-in. )

Thanks.

Answer 1

1. You do already have the file/line number. CruiseControl.NET provides the detailed MSBuild report, which is nothing but the usual compiler output.
2. This would be only possible with an extension that is specific your the Version Control System. You would have to write such an extension by yourself (but I doubt that it's worth the effort...).

HTH.

Answer 2

Hi this should be doable with a bit of xsl parsing alone :-)
Needed steps :

1. Create the xsl file (blame.xsl for instance)
   this xsl should look at the <modifications/> node and the <msbuild/> node to get the data.
2. Define a new xslReportBuildPlugin in your webdashboard.config pointing to the new xsl file. Something in the likes of :
   <xslReportBuildPlugin description="Blame" actionName="BlameBuildReport" xslFileName="xsl\blame.xsl"/>

3. do an iisreset to activate it (just to be sure) and clear your browser cache

   now you should see a Blame in every build report :-)