JetBrains TeamCity Blog

Tags in TeamCity

Khalusova — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:42:46 +0000

As you might know, TeamCity comes with such feature as build tags – do not confuse with supported VCS tags, because that’s an entirely different story. You can assign any number of tags for a single build, and then use them to organize your build history, or quickly navigate to the tagged builds. There is nothing tricky about that, but one might ask himself when these tags can be helpful.

Well, here is an example. Suppose, after some time of developing, your project manager decides, that you’ve finally got a stable build that can be considered a release candidate, or eap. He can mark this build with “EAP” tag, and thus, guys from QA won’t need to search through the whole build history to find the build they should carefully look at. They’ll just need to filter the history by this tag, or simply type “EAP” in the search field.

You can also leave a comment on any build, providing some extra notes about it; and just as with the tags, you can later on search for the build by the comment. Hope, you’ll like it.
Feedback is appreciated as usual.

Artifact packaging with TeamCity

KIR — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:32 +0000

In the upcoming TeamCity 5.1 we’ve added an often requested feature - artifact packaging.

As you probably already know, in TeamCity you can easily configure artifact upload to the server. Later, from a build page, you can download all artifacts of the build. You can specify both directories and individual files as artifacts. The syntax for this is rather simple.

Build artifacts enable another really popular feature - custom reports. The essence of the feature is that if your build produces a report, viewable in a browser (any HTML/Text/Image/PDF), you can integrate this build report into the TeamCity interface. Report files are sent to TeamCity as artifacts, and you configure the report view in the TeamCity UI. One of the interesting things about custom reporting is that TeamCity can extract individual report files from ZIP-packaged archives. So if your report is a big directory with hundreds of files, you better zip them first before sending (to speedup the upload process).

Before TeamCity 5.1, you needed to zip the files in your build script. This required writing an Ant or NAnt task which prepared corresponding archive file. Unfortunately, not all build runners allow creating zip files.

In TeamCity 5.1, artifacts can be packed without modification of your build scripts. Just use archive suffix in your target path, and that’s it:

  testng-report => testng.zip
  **/src/**/*.java => sources/all-java-files.tgz

You can use suffixes zip, jar, war, tgz, tar.gz to specify type of the archive. For jar and war archives, the file format is just zip.

And as you would have expected, if you use tar/gz packaging on a UNIX system, TeamCity preserves file mode of the files, username, and group.

You can try artifact packaging in the just opened TeamCity 5.1 EAP builds.

Hope you’ll like these bits of syntax-sugar, and please share your feedback!

Opening TeamCity 5.1 EAP

Khalusova — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:31:49 +0000

We are glad to announce, that we’ve just opened an Early Access Program for TeamCity 5.1.

Here’s the short list of only some of the improvements and features that today’s EAP brings:

Customizable email notifications — now you can use FreeMarker templates to create your custom notification messages.
Several UI improvements, such as collapsible projects on overview page and the most voted one — the ability to specify time zone, which is handy for geographically dispersed teams.
New Current problems tab is added for a project, that shows which tests are currently failing in this project and which configurations are red.
Support for .NET 4.0, and not yet released Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010.
Improved support for .NET test frameworks.
Code coverage support for Maven runner.
Ability to produce zip and tar.gz artifacts from a bunch of files.
IDE integration plugins improved.
read more…

View the detailed release notes, download the build and stay tuned — TeamCity 5.1 won’t take long to appear.

By tradition, we remind you to back up your data before upgrade.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Sincerely,
JetBrains TeamCity team.

.NET Code Coverage in Two Clicks

Khalusova — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:27:46 +0000

If you have ever dealt with .NET code coverage for NUnit tests, you surely know that it is quite a tricky thing to configure: you need to read docs to properly set up launching a command line coverage tool in your build script; read more docs and configure how reports should be gathered; then read docs again and specify all the needed arguments to be passed… well, not a task anyone would like to deal with.

Now imagine that you can forget all that tangled routine and spend more time doing whatever you like. That’s because starting with TeamCity 5.0 configuring coverage execution with NUnit becomes easy as pie.

All you need to do is to select the preferred coverage tool when creating or editing Build Configuration — NCover and PartCover are at your disposal; and specify its parameters. That’s it!

Just a few clicks to make TeamCity automatically add necessary arguments to NUnit tests, and ensure you’ll be able to view the results in the TeamCity. Enjoy!

Code Coverage Results

Code Coverage Summary

Coverage Graph

Sincerely,
JetBrains TeamCity team.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, NCover, PartCover, NUnit, agile development

TeamCity 5.0.2 is Now Available!

Khalusova — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:14:34 +0000

Great news for all TeamCity users!
We are glad to announce the fresh from the oven update – TeamCity 5.0.2, which brings a number of fixes you might find tasty.

Check the release notes for the complete list of included changes and download the build.
As usual, we recommend backing up your TeamCity data before upgrading to a new version.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Sincerely,
JetBrains TeamCity team.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, agile development

Merry Christmas with TeamCity 5.0.1!

Ekaterina — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:26:16 +0000

Ho-ho-ho! Christmas presents are here! Look in your Christmas stockings for a fresh TeamCity 5.0.1 build with lots of fixes and enhancements.

See the complete Release notes for details and unwrap the present — download TeamCity 5.0.1.
As always we’ll be glad to get your feedback!

Just to be on the safe side, you might want to back up your data before upgrading.

Merry Christmas and Happy Building to all!
JetBrains TeamCity Team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, pre-tested commit, personal build, remote run, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, agile development, Amazon EC2, Rake, Maven, Code Coverage, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Git, YouTrack, Issue tracker integration

Update for TeamCity 4.x Users

Ekaterina — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:55:19 +0000

Only a week ago we released TeamCity 5.0, but here we are again with news for those who use TeamCity 4.x and, for some reason or other, do not upgrade to the latest version.

We just released the TeamCity 4.5.6 with a couple of fixes and with a serious improvement: support for IntelliJ IDEA 9 (both Ultimate and Community editions) and RubyMine in the TeamCity’s plug-in for IDEA platform.

Check the complete Release notes and download the build. Please don’t forget to backup your data before upgrading.

By the way, now you can download any previous 4.x release build from here.

Build safe!
JetBrains TeamCity Team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, pre-tested commit, personal build, remote run, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, agile development, RubyMine, IntelliJ IDEA 9

TeamCity 5.0 Released!

mfeldman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:23:27 +0000

The wait is over, ladies and gentlemen! The release build is baked, tested, and put on the shelf. Tastes good, so go and grab it now!

Let us write down a short summary of what was accomplished since the TeamCity 4.5 release.

First of all, here’s the list of most noteworthy features:

Support for Amazon EC2: Take advantage of cloud computing with TeamCity by putting build agents on Amazon EC2 cloud with on-demand image starting and on-idle stopping.
Issue tracker integration with JetBrains YouTrack, JIRA and Bugzilla - out of the box, plus an API for the integration plugins for other systems.
Maven support improvements, including simplified build configuration creation from POM file, and build triggering on Maven artifacts change.
Build configuration templates for eliminating redundancy in build configurations settings.
Project archiving for putting no-longer-active projects out of sight.
Command line tool for running Personal builds on server without IDE integration.
Backup & Restore were added to simplify TeamCity maintenance. Also, migration tool was re-implemented.

Other improvements:

Now you can view the status of a change across all build configurations on a single page.
Failure responsibility feature has been advanced to cover not only builds, but also individual test failures.
Various actions performed by TeamCity users are now stored in the Audit log, which can be browsed from the web UI.
Code coverage analysis has been significantly improved for both Java (based on IntelliJ IDEA coverage engine) and .NET (support for NCover and PartCover).
And many more

New and improved integrations:

Git & Mercurial support are now bundled with TeamCity.
Remote Run now works for Git from IntelliJ IDEA & Eclipse.
New support for Cucumber, Shoulda, Test-Spec in Rake runner.
TeamCity IntelliJ IDEA plugin now works with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and RubyMine 2.0.

Of course, this is not an exhaustive list, so check What’s New to get a full overview of new features and improvements.

As always, TeamCity 5.0 Professional is available for FREE for all small- and middle-sized development teams and can be downloaded at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download.

TeamCity 5.0 Enterprise is available for a 60-day free trial download at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download.

New customers can purchase TeamCity 5.0 online at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/.

Existing customers can upgrade to version 5.0 after purchasing a 1-year subscription for software updates at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/.

TeamCity licenses bought after October 1, 2009, receive a 1-year subscription for software updates for free, and therefore will work fine with TeamCity version 5.0. If you have such licenses, you will soon receive an e-mail with the new keys and certificates.

Build safe!

The JetBrains TeamCity Team

Here Comes TeamCity 5.0 RC!

Ekaterina — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Great news, everyone — we’ve just published TeamCity 5.0 Release Candidate! And it means that TeamCity 5.0 is almost at your doorstep!

So, don't hesitate and download TeamCity 5.0 RC, and, of course, do not forget to backup your TeamCity data before upgrading.
As always, your feedback will be highly appreciated.

Stay tuned, the big day’s coming!

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, pre-tested commit, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, Release Candidate

Still Closer to TeamCity 5.0: New EAP Build

Ekaterina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:01:33 +0000

Hooray! Here it is, the new EAP build with more fixes and enhancements! Download it and check the complete list of included changes.

Stay tuned — TeamCity 5.0 is just around the corner.

Develop with pleasure!

JetBrains TeamCity Team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, pre-tested commit, personal build, remote run, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, agile development