Never Run With Scissors

TeamCity v5.0.1 with NUnit v2.5.3

Pete — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:01:28 +0000

If you want to see per-test reporting during TeamCity build-running, with NUnit 2.5.3 (which isn’t mentioned as being supported in the TeamCity v2.5.3 release notes, but actually seems to be fine) executing tests via a command-line command (instead of TeamCity’s built-in NUnitLauncher), where your nunit-console.exe is stored in source-control, you need to:

Jump onto an agent machine
Open up {agent-install-dir}\plugins\dotnetPlugin.zip\bin
Pull out JetBrains.TeamCity.NUnitAddin-NUnit-2.5.3.dll and .pdb
Drop those into your {nunit-in-source-control}\bin\net-2.0\addins directory in source-control
Commit
Marvel at the per-test reporting that then happens (because a build will kick off)

Thanks to John Leger for getting me most of the way there

Getting Fluent NHibernate and Castle NHibernateFacility to play well together

Pete — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:09:58 +0000

There’s an interface, Castle.Facilities.NHibernateIntegration.IConfigurationContributor, which gives one the opportunity to hook onto the NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration that the Facility will create, and add on the FluentNH mappings that you’d like (or do anything else you might like to enrich it, actually). You register your config contributor into your IoC container – the Facility will look for these during start-up (so, if you have more than one SessionFactory, you’ll need to filter on the ids). This ends up looking something like:

public class FooConfigurationContributor : IConfigurationContributor 
{
	public void Process(string name, Configuration config)
	{
		if (name == "foo") // only enrich the session-factory configuration with id="foo" in the facility ioc-config.
		{
			var maps = from t in typeof (FooMap).Assembly.GetTypes()
			                   where
			                   	t.BaseType.Name.Contains(typeof (ClassMap<>).Name)
			                   select t;
			Fluently
				.Configure(config)
				.Mappings(x =>
				{
					foreach (var map in maps)
					{
						x.FluentMappings.Add(map);
					}
				})
				.BuildConfiguration();
		}
	}
}

IncludeCombiner merged into MvcContrib as MvcContrib.IncludeHandling

Pete — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Over the last few days, I’ve forked MvcContrib on github and merged in my IncludeCombiner library to it as MvcContrib.IncludeHandling. It was accepted (thanks Jeremy!), and is now part of MvcContrib/HEAD.

So, if you’re running off HEAD, you’ll get it in the continuous-builds’ artifacts [most-recent successful build] at the codebetter.com teamcity instance. You can also download it from codeplex.com – I just noticed builds are published there automatically.

There are a few known issues / areas for improvement that I’ll push into the codeplex.com issue tracker from the github.com issue tracker where I was keeping them, over the next few days. I’ll also transfer documentation from my blog to the codeplex wiki, though there is a demo-site; see MvcContrib.Samples.IncludeHandling. But, essentially, it’s there.

rake-dotnet 0.1.15

Pete — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:08:27 +0000

I just released rake-dotnet 0.1.15. Here is the changelog:

=== 0.1.15 / 2009-09-23

CHANGE: Xunit.NET – cope with v1.5 release which packages an x86 console runner as well as x64 one, in combination with wanting to run x86 one if it exists because of WatiN seeming to not be happy running under x64.

=== 0.1.14 / 2009-09-08

FIX: Versioner: Replace the RDNVERSION constant with calls to Versioner.new.get

CHANGE: Added version task for convenience

=== 0.1.13 / 2009-09-01

FIX: Versioner: Need to make the version.txt file a file-task, so assembly_info can depend on it.

=== 0.1.12 / 2009-08-29

FIX: Versioner: Cache the version number to a file, so CI can pull/push it and maintain same version number throughout CI pipeline stages

CHANGE: Xunit.NET – cope with v1.5 release which packages an x86 console runner as well as x64 one, in combination with wanting to run x86 one if it exists because of WatiN seeming to not be happy running under x64.
FIX: Versioner: Replace the RDNVERSION constant with calls to Versioner.new.get
CHANGE: Added version task for convenience
FIX: Versioner: Need to make the version.txt file a file-task, so assembly_info can depend on it.
FIX: Versioner: Cache the version number to a file, so CI can pull/push it and maintain same version number throughout CI pipeline stages

Note: there is still an off-by-one error with the build-number of the Versioner feature.

rake-dotnet Skillsmatter talk – the podcast

Pete — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:53:20 +0000

I forgot to post, but the recording of my talk at Skillsmatter about rake-dotnet is available online.

rake-dotnet 0.1.9

Pete — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:08:59 +0000

I’ve done a bit of work on rake-dotnet since the last release I blogged about (which was 0.0.8); the latest release is v0.1.9 and includes:

NEW: MsBuild: Can now take arbitrary properties list
NEW: MsBuild: Default to treating warnings as errors, as stringently as possible
NEW: MSBuild – support for building VB.NET and WiX projects
NEW: AssemblyInfo – support for generating AssemblyInfo.vb into {project}/My Project/ (which I hope is the by-convention place)
NEW: RDNPackageTask – generate a named task per package so they can be built individually
NEW: SevenZip – wrapper for extracting an archive
NEW: NCover: Generate the full-coverage report
NEW: Add the ability for ncover.reporting to generate more than one report at a time
NEW: Add FxCop -> TeamCity code-inspections reporting via TeamCity’s service-messages feature
NEW: If VERBOSE=true is passed on the command line, command-line calls will get echoed before they’re run (otherwise, they get ellipsis’d by rake’s error tracing, which doesn’t let one see the arguments)
NEW: clobber_fxcop will kill off the fxcop report in isolation
CHANGE: SevenZip – wrapper is more useful
CHANGE: MsBuild; use constants rather than hard-codings for verbosity of output and source-directory
CHANGE: Harvesters – harvest dumps output into a config-version named directory now
CHANGE: NCover: Ignore ISymWrapper assembly by default; seems to be an NCover artefact
FIX: When TeamCity build-configs are out-of-sync, number-wise, we cannot rely on RDNVERSION to be a sensible default.
FIX: Initialise bin_dir to correct defaults
FIX: FxCop – support for running against .exe files instead of just DLLs. Exclude *.vshost.exe by default
FIX: NCover: Exclude-assemblies can be an array
FIX: NCover: Implement working-directory on ncover so it executes from the same location as the DLLs it’s using a tool to profile
FIX: If BUILD_NUMBER environment variable is not a number, use 0 (since only numbers are valid to the AssemblyFileVersion and AssemblyVersion attributes)
FIX: Automatically create {project}/Properties directories when generating AssemblyInfo.cs files (git does not version empty directories)
FIX: Detect processor architecture from environment variable rather than require user to figure it out and pass it in.
FIX: make get_tools_dir correctly return the path instead of just think about it.

There’s currently one known bug; the fact that output is put into non-friendly-to-type paths (this doesn’t interact with CI well).

Looking for a QA-engineer

Pete — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:10:07 +0000

The company I work for, Onalytica, is looking to recruit a quality-assurance engineer. We’re after a developer-type that will focus on testing and assuring-quality – here, quality-of-implementation is a first-class concern rather than injected-as-afterthought-too-late. Which is a rather nice attitude right there, IMHO!

Other salient points?

We’re a primarily .NET-shop, but use tools pragmatically. We have a build-script written in rake, for example.
We’re working on an internet-scale v2 product – v1 is currently live, successful, and high-volume.
Thou shalt buy-in to an agile process; automated testing (automated-everything, actually) underpins this. You’ll be writing software to test product; scripts, test-harnesses, etc.
You’ll be good at breaking things to point out, clearly, how to make them better. Personally, I’d describe that as a sadistic streak combined with tact…

Onalytica QA Engineer Job Specification 2009-06 (95)

No longer a festival virgin

Pete — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:50:21 +0000

(Decidedly not a post that has anything to do with software development.)

So I’ve never been to a music festival. This is a fact that my new girlfriend (A) was taken ever-so-slightly aback by (along with news that I don’t eat Marmite and prefer coffee over tea – I retain the opinion that her opinions are not yet above suspicion…. So, off to Download for the (last) weekend. This is a heavy-metal, rock, and alternative music festival held at Donington race-track near Leicester. Oh, and we’ll camp.

There’s no internet at this campsite.

I receive a three-page (formatted) word document of stuff that will come in handy, as well as a) which things A already has and shall take, and; b) which things are absolutely essential. In the latter category are things like wellington boots, waterproof trousers and top, warm clothes, sunscreen, and many, many pocket-pack paper tissues. Apparently, in the UK in June, it has been known for campsites to wash away in the torrential misery of rain that happens along, and waterproof trousers will allow for survival (if, perhaps, not a complete alleviation of abject misery while watching the tent collapse into a pool of mud as it rolls down the hill). Well, I took her warning to heart and duly laid hands on waterproof trousers and top, and happily have some sturdy boots of the walking persuasion from my time spent at York University up in the Northern Frozen Wastes of God’s County – colour me prepared (at least, as much as I was going to be).

We drive up on Thursday night (I’ve had the foresight to book Friday and Monday off), and arrive to pitch tent just as twilight is waning – it takes a half hour to walk from the field in which cars are parked to the field in which tents are pitched (apparently there is some festival tradition that dictates the two must be at opposite ends of the site). I fail to trip over any guy-ropes, what with having paid attention to the need to bring a torch. We’re camping in style, too; no sleeping bags for us, instead we’ve got an air-mattress, pillows, and a duvet. And very little space for anything else.

Like the internet.

It’s quite hot, too. As events transpire, I’m feeling rather smug about the fact that all my stuff fits in one small backpack, and all hers fits in one of those travel-the-world backpacker packs – that’s slightly unfair, what with her doing the lion’s share of planning and execution and me only really being along for the ride (and said-backpack lugging duty… ). I don’t recall a single drop of rain until we were safely in the car for the trip home, late Sunday night. Apparently, the weather report was wrong. Who would have thought? Lucky we had sunscreen; my lily-white skin caught some burn even so.

The music itself was great, subjective an opinion though that is. We saw Faith No More, Def Leppard, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson (does he have to get his supporting band members to sign a contract saying he can abuse them?), Hollywood Undead, a bit of ZZ Top, Trivium, and Prodigy (who frankly, ****ing rocked, live!) and a few others. We slept in and missed some stuff we kinda wanted to see, but not badly enough to trump wanting to find a pool to take a swim in (rather than brave the showers). We fairly glowed with smug cleanliness as we rejoined our fellow refuge^H^H^H^H^Hcampers on the site, if I do say so myself…

It was actually very much more civilised than I was kinda expecting! I had a fantastic weekend, even if I’ll continue to tease her about the size of her pack and some other stuff for a little while yet…

Dear JetBrains – please implement a ReSharper lightbulb for “fix breaking changes between vX and vY of dependency”

Pete — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:14:48 +0000

Open-source libraries tend to move quicker than commercially-developed ones. Microsoft seems to have a policy of preferring to maintain backwards compatibility where the choice is between that and breaking a consumer’s code (whether it’s good code or workaround for a problem in a library).

Perhaps this is the beginnings of an answer…? I doubt it, but I still think it’s a cool feature-request

While we’re on the subject of Dear-JetBrains-Please-Fix, how about any of the following…?

rake-dotnet talk at Skillsmatter notes

Pete — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:14:04 +0000

The presentation I gave yesterday at Skillsmatter seemed to go well; I was really enthused when a few people came up to me afterwards and said they’d start using it

Notes & links:

rake-dotnet “Documentation”
rake-dotnet source code
rake-dotnet presentation notes + demos -> presentation directory
rake-dotnet in use on a real project’s CI
Learning Ruby as a C# developer
rake