How to recombine builds in TeamCity?

Question

We have a lot of tests. I can break these up so that they run on seperate agents after an initial compile build happens, but is there a way I can recombine these results? Having 8 build configurations that all need to be green makes it hard to see if you've got one ubergreen build.

Is there a way in TeamCity to recombine / join builds once we've split them out? TW-9990 might help - allowing ANDs in the dependencies.

Answer 1

No idea how to do that natively. Here's my first thoughts on how I would try and tackle such a thing though:

• Saving test results to files
• Publishing the test result files as build artifacts
• Creating a 'Merge build'
• Adding artifact dependency onto the individual test projects
• Writing a custom 'build' script using something like (N)Ant. This would parse the individual test results and publish the results as per the TC KB

Good luck!

Answer 2

Thinking outside the box you could have an overall build which doesn't really do anything (or use one of your test build configs as your 'master'), with snapshot dependencies on each of your split test builds. That way if any of them fail, the 'master' will fail because one the dependent build failed.

TW-9990 looks to be concerned with build triggering rather than dependencies.