How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

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re: How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

BassettHound — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:04:04 GMT

I am getting an error with this. I have tried Status, BuildStatus and CompilationStatus, all yield the same result which is as (or similar) to below.

I would like to get the build to fail, not "partiallly succeed".

What might I be doing wrong?

c:\d\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(335,25): error MSB4030: "Failed" is an invalid value for the "CompilationStatus" parameter of the "SetBuildProperties" task. The "CompilationStatus" parameter is of type "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildPhaseStatus".

Task "SetBuildProperties"

c:\d\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(335,25): error MSB4030: "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildStatus.Failed" is an invalid value for the "Status" parameter of the "SetBuildProperties" task. The "Status" parameter is of type "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildStatus".

Done executing task "SetBuildProperties" -- FAILED.

Done building target "AfterTest" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "c:\d\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)) -- FAILED.

Task "SetBuildProperties"

c:\d\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(335,25): error MSB4030: "Failed" is an invalid value for the "Status" parameter of the "SetBuildProperties" task. The "Status" parameter is of type "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.BuildStatus".

Done executing task "SetBuildProperties" -- FAILED.

Done building target "AfterTest" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "c:\d\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)) -- FAILED.

re: How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

aaronhallberg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:23:17 GMT

Ah yes - there was a bug in earlier versions of the SetBuildProperties task where these properties were of their *real* enum types (BuildPhaseStatus/BuildStatus) rather than strings. I had assumed - wrongly - that MSBuild could manage the conversion for me. I believe the issue should be fixed in Orcas Beta 2 - let me know if I am incorrect here. If so, it is *definitely* fixed in the RTM version, which should be released here shortly... Sorry for the confusion!

re: How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

BassettHound — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:07:46 GMT

Aaron,

We're getting some funky behavior with this using MaxProcesses=2.

With MaxProcesses=2, we're getting TestSuccess=False using the code below. All unit test have passed.

Thoughts?

tim

</GetBuildProperties>

re: How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

aaronhallberg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:03:56 GMT

I suspect there is a race condition here when using multiproc MSBuild... The TestSuccess property is just a helper property that checks whether TestStatus is BuildPhaseStatus.Succeeded - it being false doesn't necessarily mean that tests have *failed* - they could just still be marked as BuildPhaseStatus.Unknown, since the logger hasn't had a chance to update the status yet. You could verify this by printing out TestStatus in addition to TestSuccess.

If this is the issue, the best approach I can come up with would be to write you own custom task to check the test status which sleeps for a while if it is BuildPhaseStatus.Unknown.

Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes, Part 2

Aaron Hallberg — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:18:19 GMT

As promised, here are some more details on other SP1 changes for TFS Build.  3. Detect test results.

re: How to: Fail a Build When Tests Fail

ritmeijer@hotmail.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:43:02 GMT

Not sure if this is because I am on TFS 2008, but simply specifying the following in a <PropertyGroup> achieves the same.