Jenkins: Configure CI with TFS, NSUnit – Build, Package

Today I want to tell about the way to create a C.I. with Package and Deploy with Jenkins. Jenkins is “an extendable open source continuous integration server”. There are a lot of good articles on internet which explain what is jenkins and the base configuration

http://marcofranssen.nl/ci-with-jenkins-msbuild-nuget-and-git-part-1/
http://codingcockerel.co.uk/2008/05/18/how-to-publish-a-web-site-with-msbuild/
http://jenkinsheaven.blogspot.ch/2013/08/automating-net-builds-its-not-all-about.html
http://yakiloo.com/jenkins-tfs-and-msbuild/

but it is difficult to find tutorial or article that discuss about NSUnit, configuration and Packages together. First of all we need to create a a simple MSBuild script with all steps that we need.
In this first post, we can discus about the msbuild script. Now we prepare a script to put inside our jenkins:

1 – Clean Solution

<ItemGroup>
	<Solution Include="${RootPath}\src\TestProjectComplete.sln"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Clean">
	<Message Importance="high" Text="Cleaning folders"/>
	<RemoveDir Directories="$(BinPathUnitTests)" />
	<!-- Clean the source code projects -->
	<MSBuild Projects="@(ProjectFiles)"
	ContinueOnError="false"
	Targets="Clean"
	Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration)" />
</Target>

2 – Get packages from Nuget

<!-- The LoadNuGetPackages Target -->
<ItemGroup>
	<NuGetPackageConfigs Include="E:\workspace\TestProjectComplete\src\**\packages.config" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="LoadNuGetPackages">
	<Message Importance="high" Text="Retrieving packages for %(NuGetPackageConfigs.Identity)" />
	<Exec Command="&quot;$(SrcPath)\.nuget\nuget&quot; install &quot;%(NuGetPackageConfigs.Identity)&quot; -o &quot;$(SrcPath)\packages&quot;" />
</Target>

3 – Build projects

<Target Name="Compile">
	<Message Importance="high" Text="Compiling projects"/>
	<MakeDir Directories="$(BinPathUnitTests)" />
	<MSBuild Projects="$(SrcPath)\TestProjectComplete\TestProjectComplete.csproj" Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);Platform=$(Platform)" />
</Target>

4 – Run unit test

<!-- Running Test -->
<Target Name="NUnit">
	<ItemGroup>
		<TestAssembly Include="$(BinPathUnitTests)\*.test.dll" />
	</ItemGroup>
	<Message Text="NUnit is running on: @(TestAssembly)" />
	<Nunit ToolPath="$(NUnit-ToolPath)" Assemblies="@(TestAssembly)" OutputXmlFile="$(BinPathUnitTests)\test-results.xml"/>
</Target>

5 – Packages

<Target Name="Package">
	<MakeDir Directories="$(Publish)" />		
	<MSBuild Projects="$(SrcPath)\TestProjectComplete\TestProjectComplete.csproj"
		Properties="Configuration=Debug;WebProjectOutputDir=$(Publish);OutDir=$(Publish)\bin"
		Targets="ResolveReferences;_CopyWebApplication" />
</Target>	

In my Github repository you can find the msbuild script (here). The next post we discuss how to configure jenkins to use this script.