Questions tagged [build-automation]

Build automation is the act of scripting or automating tasks like compiling, packaging, running tests, deployment etc.

Build automation is the act of scripting or automating a wide variety of tasks that software developers do in their day-to-day activities including things like:

  • Compiling computer source code into binary code
  • Packaging binary code
  • Running tests
  • Deployment to production systems
  • Creating documentation and/or release notes

Advantages

  • Improve product quality
  • Accelerate the compile and link processing
  • Eliminate redundant tasks
  • Minimize "bad builds"
  • Eliminate dependencies on key personnel
  • Have history of builds and releases in order to investigate issues
  • Save time and money - because of the reasons listed above.

See also , and .

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Eclipse headless build doesnt return error code

I have an ant script that does a headless build using the following ant code
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Run Test automation code from Development repository on every push through Bitbucket pipelines

I am Test automation engineer and I have developed my automation code repository to test functional aspect of the product. I want this code to run when any developer pushes feature or bug on the beta environment. I have built the pipeline on…
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How to pass json file to Nunit3 tests execution from command prompt

I have a json file which has my app url and other details. i am running my tests from cmd prompt using nunit3-console runner. how can i pass the json file as parameter to my tests execution
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signtool command on self-hosted vsts build agent does not complete

I have a self-hosted build agent for building a .NET 4.7.2 Application from VSTS. In my pipeline I build an Installer using Squirrel.Windows and everything runs smoothly, except the signing of the binaries and subsequently the installer. the agent…
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How to manage before or after scenario methods in listener?

I wanted to know if we can maintain login in more than one scenario present in same bdd file. Is there any listener where I can manage in it. Like before or after scenario present in that listener. Would like to know more about same…
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Unable to set up Angular SIT build on TFS

I am unable to set up Angular SIT build on TFS. I am pretty new to Angular. In my company, they are checking-in Angular solution using TFS (neighter VSTS not Git). I am getting build failed error. But, I may not be able to show the build error…
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Check NAnt version inside NAnt script

How to check NAnt version inside a NAnt script to display error? For example my NAnt script works with NAnt version +0.92, so I need to display error if lesser version is being used by the user.
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Are there installers that can be used to automate builds with msbuild for .NET 2.0 projects

I just realised I can not run my vdproj file from msbuild without calling Visual Studio. What a showstopper for atomated builds! Can you recommend another installer, that allows to compile your setup for a .NET 2.0 Winform-application from…
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Automatically add project dependency metadata to manually created nuspec file

When I nuget pack a web project I want to specify custom unpack locations for content and maintain project dependency metadata. Given the following manually created example nuspec file:
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Not receiving jenkins email artifact

I am trying to email the apk from Jenkins once build is succeeded. In the post action of the jenkins job I have selected editable email notification and mentioned the file path in the attachment. Below is the last few lines of console…
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Unable to execute .cmd file in post build event command line

In my uitest project am able to execute .cmd file with RunAsAdmin but not with user and also tried giving admin permission to user but not succedded. From the build process I need to execute .cmd file after build process. can any one help on…
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Linking jenkins with git repository - the remote end hung up unexpectedly

I am trying to connect jenkins to a git repository, to trigger a build whenever any changes are committed to the repository. Jenkins version - 2.46.3, Java version - 1.7.51, CentOS version - 6.6 My git repository is in a LAN (eg. IP - 10.0.0.1), to…
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Artifact "Windows Machine File Copy" task configure properly

I just tried to automate my build process. So tried to add Windows Machine File Copy task for artifact (Release Definition) This DevOpsBuild artifact has 3 environment as seen on the picture. So I added Windows Machine File Copy task to copy the…
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VS 2010 Ultimate Edition - hot to use msbuild to refresh exports of partial projects?

I use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition. Situation is like this: I have two databases solutions A and B. Solution A is exported as partial project. Solution B imports partial project from solution A. I would like to build automatically solution B…
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Jenkins How To Run Same Job for the Same Count the Parameters are defined?

My requirement is that I have written a bash script which monitors telnet on several ip(s) and ports. I have used the CSV which contains the input data and the script will read each row in the CSV and checks if the ip(s) can be telnet. However I…
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