Is it possible to run an Automated Build when you Merge a Feature Branch into the Development Branch?
When a Developer is done working on their Feature Branch, they will Merge the Feature Branch into the Development Branch. When it is Merge, I would like to fire off an Automated Build, that will run the Unit Tests.
With Continuous Integration, you run the Build when you check in a Changeset. I want to run Continuous Integration when I Merge a Branch into another Branch.
This isn't much different than setting up a build for a normal check in. You would just set up a trigger/build definition on the appropriate branch for the approriate reason. Once the merge is performed into the branch and checked in, this would trigger the build normally.
From my source view see:
KritnerWebsite is trunk, KritnerWebsite-branch is my dev branch.
I complete development/check-ins on the branch, then when done I merge into trunk. At which point the following build definition takes over:
Notice in above the monitored folder for the trigger (in this case gated check in) is my trunk folder in source control.
Hope this helps! :)
FYI a merge isn't actually a "merge" until you check it in and it becomes a changeset. When doing a merge, it actually just gets merged locally - into your workspace. You could technically do a local build at this point, but your build definition won't take over until you actually check it in. I'm not sure why Daniel felt this isn't an answer... as it's the same thing I went through when setting up build definitions for merges - but oh well.
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I'm working with BitBucket and VSTS to build a standard CI pipeline.
Development team works on a feature branch. When their work is complete, they merge their code into development branch.
I would like a way to enforce a test execution prior to merging the feature branch into development branch. Ideal situation would be something like this:
The developer creates a pull request.
The code review process is approved.
The developer does SOMETHING, which triggers some process that merges the feature branch with the development branch (feature branch could merge into development branch, or a brand new branch is created with the two branches merged, or something else).
The merged branch is built, deployed, and test executed against it.
Test pass: branch is merged into development branch.
Test fail: feature branch does not merge into development branch (if the branch is already merged into development branch, then the merged commit is reverted out of development branch).
The goal of this process is to keep development branch at a "good" condition.
Typically, the SOMETHING which triggers all this process is the act of committing (or merging) a code into the development branch. The trouble with this process is reverting the code out of the development branch if the tests fail without loosing the code. (It's possible that the merged branch has been deleted at this point).
There is build Pull Request feature in VSTS build, so you can create a new build definition with Build pull requests enabled, then the build will be triggered once a new pull request be created and match the target branch, you can check the build result in pull request in bitbucket.
You can define the policies through checklist: Pull request guidelines for Bitbucket Cloud.
BTW, the VSTS includes branch policies feature, so you can consider using VSTS repository.
In part of our testing setup we are build our artifacts needed and then copying a template job and settings its name so it recognizable.
Build artifact -> copy test template -> ending with a job for each
test case
that means i'm ending up with lots of jobs with Test_Client${BRANCHNAME}_Server${BRANCHNAME}
I'm running through these jobs alot while testing that branch, but as soon as it's merged it's not going to be touched again, which is why i would like to create a job of sorts that simply deletes the jobs that havn't been run for the 14 days or so.
Does anyone know a way of doing this? and not just cleaning out the workspace.
Thanks!
It may be a big change, but this is an ideal case for the Multibranch pipeline.
On one project, we have a master branch and version branches. The developers branch to short-lived feature branches or other branching purposes. As the branches are created and pushed to github, the multibranch job picks them up and starts building them. Developers get quick feedback that the changes will pass the build. When they merge them to master or to a version branch, then delete the branch, the multibranch job goes away.
Looking for advice on how to handle this scenerio.
We have 3 environments: Dev, QA and Production.
Currently pushing the code to each environment is a manual process, wondering how something like Cruisecontrol or TeamCity could streamline this process.
How can we push to the various environments in an automated way?
How should TFS be setup to make this happen? i.e. master branch, feature branches etc.
Scenerio:
Developer#1 pushes their changes to the Dev and QA servers.
Developer#2 pushes their changes to the Dev and QA servers.
Now we need to only push Developer#1's changes to production.
Should the main branch have only the code that should be going to production?
To control what gets pushed to each environment KMoraz's approach would be the correct one, using branches and merging.
Now, for build and deployment automation the latest setup I've been using is with Team City.
My setup is:
Trunk build: compiles on every commit, runs all unit tests, generates code coverage reports, runs FxCop
Static analysis build: runs nightly against Trunk, executing Duplicate Finder (Team City), ConQAT code clone analysis, StatSVN, and Resharper Code Inspections (Team City)
DEV Deployment (dependency on Trunk build): on every commit, if the Trunk build is successful, the application is automatically deployed to a DEV environment, using MS WebDeploy with config transformations.
QA Deployment: triggered manually through Team City's interface (click of a button), when moving to QA. Deploys the application to the QA server using MS WebDeploy with config transformations.
You would also set up builds for different branches, depending on your needs, especially for branches created for releases of stable versions.
The key part, is having different visual studio build configurations (just as you have "Release" and "Debug", you should have "Dev", "QA", etc), which you should use along with web.config transformations in order to get WebDeploy to configure your environment for you.
That way you'd have different web.Dev.config, web.QA.config transformations, one for each build configuration, with specific settings.
There's an excellent series of posts by Troy Hunt called "You're deploying it wrong!" which guides you through the setup of automated builds and deployments.
http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity.html
It was very useful to me when setting this up.
Now we need to only push Developer#1's changes to production.
-Developer #1 checked-in his code to the Dev branch. After QA verified his changes, now you merge the changes to the Main branch and build a release for production from the Main.
Should the main branch have only the code that should be going to
production?
-Yes. Ideally, production releases should be built from the Main branch.
How can we push to the various environments in an automated way?
-In TFS, a common practice is defining a build defintion per branch and/or build type. Apart from the source and build type, each defintion can also have its own tasks, I.e: run unit tests, publish to certain folders, deploy build artifacts to Lab Management, etc.
ProjectName-Main-Gated
ProjectName-Dev-CI
ProjectName-Dev-Nightly
ProjectName-Test-CI
I have multiple branches and for every one i have specific build process.
How do i set up gated build process for specific branch?
example
Development branch
-> fast for developers
build process this has main intergation tests
Release branch
-> checkin before production.
contain load testing and records steps contains automated UI tests
Now for my development i want to run tests every time when developer commits changes. but i do not want release build to run every time.
How do i set this up?
You need to have two separate build definitions: One building your 'Development' branch & one building your 'Release' branch.
Both can base on the same Build process template and their differences are:
Dev-build targets in 'Workspace' the path of your development branch - Rel-build targets the path of your release branch
(This is you main question) Trigger = "Gated check-in" for your Dev-build, Trigger = "Manual" (or some other) for your Rel-build
Rel-build will probably be tasked with additional tests.
A basic walkthrough on how to setup a build definition in TFS2010 can be found here
In TFS, you are able to create automated builds and create branches (well, hopefully. ;) )
I have the following structure:
->Trunk
->Branches
-> Branch A
If you create an automated build, you are able to create a trigger for the build. In my case I want to create a build for Branch A so that when a checkin occurs Branch A is built. However, if I do a checkin in the Trunk, my automated build will start as it detected a checkin. Is there anyway that I can do builds per branch?
Make sure your workspace for the branch in the build definition is set to the branch only and not to the root of your project. My guess is that TFS does file change detection by workspace. You'd want it set to $Project/Branches/Branch A in your example.