TeamCity Blog

Dedicated Project Page

Elizaveta — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:45:29 +0000

In the forthcoming version of TeamCity, which we are working on right now, we want you to gain more control and a useful overview of the specific project. This is going to be a “space” for evaluating its different aspects.

Clicking some project name on the Projects page you now navigate to a page containing a list of all project’s build configurations and their statistics.

The Overview tab displays quite common build configuration-related information (similar to what you see on the Projects page). On the Statistics tab you can view several graphs depending on the build configurations specified for the project; these can, for example, be inspections, duplicates, coverage and number of code lines. You can change the view of the graphs by applying various filters and provide your own metrics soon.

We are polishing the feature right now, and will likely introduce some serious changes in it. We’ll tell about them in the nearest posts but right now we would like to get as many comments and suggestions as possible.

Download the EAP build and share your opinion with us at our tracker or online forum.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

TeamCity 4.0 Early Access Program is Open!

Elizaveta — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:01:35 +0000

After a short break in developing new features we are glad to launch the Early Access Program for TeamCity version 4.0.
A list of this EAP build features includes the following:

“Run recently failed tests first” and “Run new and modified tests first” options for Ant and Ipr Build Runners and JUnit and TestNG frameworks
A separate page for each project with a list of all its build configurations and selected statistical reports of the project
Various notifications improvements: possibility to customize the order of processing your notification rules; “first failure/success” notifications are also supported for “Builds with my changes” notifications
Custom statistics now supports multiple series (values) display on a single chart
Multiple performance improvements
and more…

View more detailed release notes and download the build. As usual, we remind you to back up your data before upgrade.

Don’t miss your chance to influence the development process and vote for already existing features or submit new ones at our issue tracker and online forum. We greatly appreciate and eagerly wait for your feedback!

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, EAP, early access program, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

If TeamCity Misbehaves…

Elizaveta — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:59:44 +0000

Yes, we admit that every so often TeamCity like any other application can misbehave or slow down for some reason you cannot understand, and traditional “close and open” method (or “shutdown and start” in TeamCity terms) does not always help to get rid of the headache…

Now you don’t need to spend ages when trying to diagnose the problem. We have created a utility for taking the CPU profiling snapshots of the TeamCity server right from the web UI. Download the latest version of this plugin and see the installation instructions for details.
And please note that it is compatible with TeamCity 3.1 and higher.

Have an untroubled building!

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, Java, VCS, .NET, IntelliJ IDEA, continuous integration, build management, agile development, best practices, MS Visual Studio 2003, Eclipse, profiling, plugin

More TeamCity Plugins

Elizaveta — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:31:22 +0000

This post continues the story of new TeamCity plugins which have just appeared. Today we would like to tell you about two third-party plugins.

The Growl notifier plugin delivers alerts using Growl engine.

Another plugin named Team piazza displays the current state of the build informing the team when the build fails and provides much other useful information on the current build state.

We would like to remind you that anyone can become a member of TeamCity plugin development community and develop plugins for integration with different change management systems, build runners, IDEs, or notification means using TeamCity’s Open API. Get more information in TeamCity online reference.

Thank you very much for your effort!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008, plugin, Open API, extensibility

Check Out a New TeamCity Plugin!

Elizaveta — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:57:49 +0000

We are pretty sure that you know JetBrains likes playing games and making jokes. You think we have been preparing for 3.1.1 release? You are wrong All this time we have been looking at the Projects page and gathered our developers feedback who complained how exhausted they were about its dull look…

So, we decided to change it for the better and developed a small plugin making TeamCity look more hmm… relaxed… Just check out new glamourous icons for tests status, Run buttons are running all around the Projects page, projects and build configurations’ names abracadabra… It’s alive now!

All the development is stuck completely - everybody is trying to run new builds but no luck, tests are running away or burning out… Ohh…

Don’t repeat our mistake! We warned you!

We wish you sunny and warm April and May!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, StarTeam, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

TeamCity 3.1.1 is out here! and a New Article on Integrating NCover in TeamCity

Elizaveta — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:14:29 +0000

For the past several weeks we have been working really hard to solve a number of issues after the 3.1 version was released, and voilà - a hot tasty little pie called TeamCity 3.1.1 is right here

The release is mainly targeted on improving the performance, has a number of bugfixes and adds better performance for StarTeam.

You can download the latest version at the official website. And don’t forget to back up your data before upgrading.

And some more good news today. Laurent Kempé, the editor, founder, and primary contributor of Tech Head Brothers, has just published an article on his successful experience of integrating TeamCity with NCover - a tool for measuring the code coverage for .NET platform development. An integration result is possibility to get an overview of the project code coverage in a dedicated Code Coverage Summary tab of the build configuration.

We wish you a happy building with TeamCity 3.1.1 and we are really glad to hear about the concrete TeamCity usage examples!

The JetBrains TeamCity team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NCover, StarTeam, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

TeamCity Rake Build Runner EAP is Open!

Elizaveta — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:20:54 +0000

We are glad to announce the EAP of Rake plugin for TeamCity. The plugin implements support of fully functional build runner and provides on-the-fly test reporting for the Test::Unit and RSpec testing frameworks.

The plugin is open-source and written in Java, and, of course, everyone is welcome to contribute.

Take a look at the working demo of the Rake builds in TeamCity at our public demo server, TeamCity Rake Runner Demo project, for example, Radiant:Spec build configuration.

To download the plugin, navigate to Teamcity Rake Runner project on the Projects page, point to the Artifacts link and download the plugin archive.

Please note that the plugin is compatible with TeamCity 3.1 and higher (the 3.1.1 version is going to be released really soon). For additional information please refer to the plugin description page and on-line reference.

We wish you a happy building with Rake Build Runner and eagerly wait for your feedback!

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Rake, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

Concrete TeamCity Use Cases

Elizaveta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:24:31 +0000

Here, at JetBrains, we use TeamCity for building all our projects and TeamCity itself and have multiple build configurations for quite different purposes to thoroughly test our tools. All in all - about 700! build per day, 170 build configurations for:

estimating code quality by discovering code duplicates, bugs, performance issues, and dead code and measure the code coverage with unit tests
scheduled builds (such as, for example, nightly ones)
“stress” tests and many other cases

Aaron Jensen has recently praised TeamCity’s possibilities, and now he shares real life examples of TeamCity’s build configurations set up in his company.

First and foremost, come the continuous integration builds triggered by VCS check-in and scheduled nightly builds.

He also uses TeamCity’s ability to specify the dependencies between the results of the builds of the build configurations. You can read more about in a blog post on artifact dependencies and dependent builds triggering.

And, finally, he mentions utility build configurations for revealing duplicate code and getting the Subversion repository statistics via StatSVN.

We are sure that you can make the most of TeamCity’s options when setting up your own build configurations selecting from a variety of triggering options, specifying dependencies between the builds artifacts and other build configurations and many others.

Wish you happy building, and, by the way, stay tuned to our blog Right now we are really busy discussing the next version features pool, so the roadmap is going to be published soon. Meanwhile, you can vote for the feature requests (and, of course, create new requests) at our new issue tracker and online forum.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

2 Jolt Productivity Awards for TeamCity!

Elizaveta — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:26:51 +0000

Hooray!

This year TeamCity has again received a Jolt productivity award in the Collaboration Tools category, and it is the first time we are recognized in Project Management Tools category!

IntelliJ IDEA - our flagship product - received an award for being a productive Development Environment.

We are very happy and proud that all our effort and work was not in vain and glad to see our tools get wider acceptance in IT world.

We would also like to congratulate and wish all the best to the other Jolt winners and Jolt judges and promise to keep on the good work

Technorati tags: TeamCity, Jolt, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008

TeamCity 3.1 - the first official release in 2008!

Elizaveta — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:55:30 +0000

Even though TeamCity 3.0 brought a great deal of new features, it was long long ago - to be more precise - last year… Since then we got so much feedback and feature requests which we greatly appreciate and understood that we had to work harder A result is TeamCity 3.1 which is mostly a maintenance release but also brings a number of tasty features:

Visualization of Build Agents’ workload
“Time to fix tests” statistics report for monitoring the project health
Improvements in 3rd party .NET tools integration
More types of notification options
Improved external database support (Oracle)
Scope filter for Code Duplicates and Inspections browsers
New options for builds triggering

Plus multiple user interface enhancements, performance improvements, and bugfixes.

Read the detailed What’s New page at the official website.

Download TeamCity 3.1 and let us know what you think at our forum.

As usual we have updated our public demo server, and you can try the new features of this release without any installation and configuration.

Good luck with your builds!

The JetBrains TeamCity Team

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, continuous integration, build management, agile development, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS Visual Studio 2008