TeamCity

There is sometimes a need to define a common build step in a template, so that this step will be executed either before all build configuration steps or after them. Here’s a simple example. I’m building a lot of typical Maven projects, and for most of the part their build is the same: just run mv…

Continuous Integration only makes sense if there's an easy way to verify the quality of our codebase and when we can easily correlate builds with our issue tracker and the source code itself. Out of he box, TeamCity provides integration with YouTrack, JIRA and Bugzilla. We can also install plugins t…

Many teams are working with Visual Studio Online (VSO), a hosted Team Foundation Server that provides source control and issue tracking as a cloud service. While VSO comes with a build server as well, lots of developers prefer to use TeamCity for their continuous integration story because of its adv…

Deploying ASP.NET applications can be done in a multitude of ways. Some build the application on a workstation and then xcopy it over to the target server. Some use a build server, download the artifacts, change the configuration files and xcopy those over to the server. The issue with that is somet…

When working with software daily, every once in a while you discover some little hidden gems that make the experience more user-friendly and/or more fun. In this post we'll explore some of the lesser-known features available in TeamCity UI that make it easier to navigate projects, builds and so on. …

When working with NuGet we can make use of package restore. The concept is simple: instead of committing packages that we depend on to source control, we only commit the list of dependencies we need and download the assemblies during build. In TeamCity, package restore is supported in various way…

TeamCity comes with a series of Runners out of the box which offer support for different functionalities such as MSBuild, Ant, Code Inspections, Gradle support, etc. In addition to these, there are a variety of runners that are supported via plugins, from FTP uploads to Grails and other things. W…

A while ago we blogged about using TeamCity to do Continuous Integration for PHP. TeamCity developers never seem to sleep: with TeamCity 8 a new feature called meta-runners was introduced. Meta runners allow us to reuse build steps by representing them as a native TeamCity runner. In other words, th…

This post describes one of the new features in the upcoming TeamCity 8.0 Using TeamCity, we can easily set up a build farm using a central TeamCity server and several connected build agents. By having multiple build agents, we can run builds and build configurations in parallel. Different branches …

BlazeMeter is a cloud-based load testing platform for web applications, mobile applications and web services. It can be used to simulate heavy loads on a server and analyze performance under different load types. And since there’s a TeamCity plugin for BlazeMeter available, we can use it to load tes…

TeamCity supports your Continuous Integration (CI) process in many technologies like Java and .NET. It’s not because we don’t provide other technologies out-of-the-box that you can not make use of them! In this post, we’ll put TeamCity to the test and setup a CI process for a PHP project. We’ll be …