continuous-integration

Step by step tutorial for xinc?

I am trying to get into CI development for a php project, after I failed with phpUnderControl because Java seemed to explode at me I wanted to try xinc. I got xinc installed just fine (mainly because I am good at php and knew what the errors it gave out ment). Is there a step by step tutorial for a project? I have only found this: http:/...

How to integration/unit test software hardware interfaces

I'm working on a small fun projects that builds a robot. We as the programmers are working parallel to the people building the robot. So it is very often the case that we are trying to run changed software and the builders have changed the hardware. If the software tests are not running it is always a hard thing to figure out if the sof...

How can I output messages from FinalBuilder that will be captured by TeamCity?

I'm running TeamCity Professional 4.5.3 and FinalBuilder Pro 6; TeamCity's running the FinalBuilder project using a command-line task. How do I get FinalBuilder to print messages into the build log, so that TeamCity will capture them? The TeamCity documentation is clear enough but I can't find any way to output the required values from ...

Choosing the correct CI Server for my needs.

I am in the process of researching/setting up a Continuous Integration Server for a major project and am in the need of either recommendations or criticism. The Need CI is just the next step in our path. It's been mandated at the right time, as a major project is in the pipeline. The Limitations Needs to be able to live on the sam...

Best choice for hosting Maven repository and continuous integration?

Can anyone recommend a good hosting provider where we can host our Maven 2 repository and continuous integration process? We're very open minded about the implementation and are willing to use any OS, CI software and repository software so long as it gets the job done well. Thanks in advance ...

Is it possible to delay CI build on Hudson until commit activity tapers?

This is my first time setting up Hudson and I would like to do trigger builds int he following manner: (We're using SVN) after a commit, but only after no more commit activity for a certain time period. I do not want to trigger a build for each commit if they happen within some small time delta. For example, flag a pending build/tas...

Filter on Category for NUnit MSBuild tasks?

I'm setting up a MSBuild project to run some NUnit test, using the MSBuild Community Tasks Project. With these settings I'll be able to run the NUnit tests: <Target Name="Test" DependsOnTargets="Build"> <CreateItem Include="$(ProjectTestDir)\$(ClassLibraryOutputDirectory)\*.Tests.dll"> <Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="Test...

How to push SQLCLR updates to your (CI) server

I'm re-using some .NET code between SQL 2005 server and WinForm clients using SQLCLR. This code has dependencies beyond .NET 2.0 which means I have to add these assemblies on the server machine (e.g. CREATE ASSEMBLY). I'm trying to do this as part of a CI build and am wondering what methods have worked best. ...

CruiseControl.NET Set Variable to a dynamic value

Hi *, is there any plug-in or other possibility to set an environment variable in CC.NET 1.4.2 to some generated value. I would like to pass to MSBuild some random value (can be a time stamp where to put some build reports). Afterwords all the generated report files from the randomly named dir will be merged to cc.net report. The probl...

Testing for ImportErrors in Python

We're having a real problem with people checking in code that doesn't work because something's been refactored. Admittedly, this is partly because our developers don't really have any good tools for finding these kinds of mistakes easily. Are there any tools to help find ImportErrors in Python? Of course, the correct answer here is "y...

Team Foundation Server Build with password protected codesigning fails

I'm trying to setup a continuous integration build on TFS 2008. In the project I want to build I use a key for signing. This key uses a password. I can't get it to build, because during the build TFS wants to show a dialog which can't be shown. I think I need to build the project by hand on the server, but only the TFS explorer and build...

WiX 3.0 throws error 217, while being executed by continuous integration

This is the error that is thrown by our automated build suite at Windows 2008, while running ICEs (after migrating from WiX 2.0 to Wix 3.0): LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action 'ICE01'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.html#Error217 fo...

How can I get the revision number into an Ant property in Luntbuild?

I'm sure this must be possible: I want to have the revision number (from Subversion) put into a property that is accessible from Ant when my build runs in Luntbuild. There must be an OGNL expression that I can add to the Build Properties box on the configuration page for my Ant builder. Does anyone know what it is? ...

Team Build - Automatically Reenable Agent After Becoming Unreachable

We have a central Team Foundation Server (2008) deployment where all projects get stored. Each project sets up their own build server running Team Build to do their own automated builds. Here's the problem. When a connection error is detected between TFS and the Team Build server, it moves the build agent's status to 'unreachable' which...

How to get the smallest VS 2008 installation for MSTEST execution and debugging

I want the tinyiest possible VS 2008 installation that can do the following Run MSTEST (This requires a either VS installation or a lot of work). I don't want to do a lot of work. (Nice) Work as a managed debugger Occassionally look at configuration or source files. This is for virtual test environments running automated tests - a ...

How to display task name in CruiseControl.NET while processing

Hello. I have installed CruiseControl.NET and created project with 3 tasks on taskList in nAnt. But when I run project to process on CruiseControl.NET I see only that: Executing Nant :BuildFile: ..\project.build Targets: compile, test, docu And my project is processing and processing ages and does not stop. And I can not figure out if...

checking for maven snapshot dependency changes on continuous integration server

There is a cruisecontrol plugin that checks for changes to snapshot dependencies, triggering a build if required. This involves using the Maven embedder to download the dependencies, then checking the timestamps of the snapshot files in the local repository. This works ok, but involves downloading all the parents and dependencies to chec...

Continuum Help

Hi all, I am the Configuration manager for an IT firm, Currently we a using anthill build management server for all our build related purposes. We are looking to implement Continuous Integration in our development life cycle. Currently the building process is done manually. Suppose there are 5 projects A,B,C,D,E and E is the parent pro...

Use of <mbunit> in NAnt fails

Hi Everyone, I got stuck up when I tried to run the Unit Test written using mbunit from NAnt. when I tried this lines of code in NAntbuilder. <mbunit report-types="Html;Xml;Text" report-filename-format="${test_results.file}" report-output-directory="${test_results.directory}" halt-on-failure="true" failonerror="tru...

TeamCity for Python/Django continuous integration

I've set up TeamCity on a Linux (Ubuntu) box and would like to use it for some of Python/Django projects. The problem is that I don't really see what to do next - I tried searching for a Python specific build agent for TeamCity but without much of the success. How can I manage that? ...