Question

I’ve written some custom logic to get NUnit tests into a TFS build. It’s all working beautifully except when the tests don’t pass the build is partially succeeded rather than failed. Anyone know how I can tell it to fail?

Here’s what I’m trying:

<BuildStep Message="Integration Tests Passed"
   Condition="$(TestsResult)  == 'True'"
   TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"
   BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
   Id="$(IntegrationTestsStepId)"
   Status="Succeeded" />
<BuildStep Message="Integration Tests FAILED"
   Condition="$(TestsResult) != 'True'"
   TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"
   BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
   Id="$(IntegrationTestsStepId)"
   Status="Failed"
   CompilationStatus="Failed"
   TestStatus="Failed"/>
<!-- If NUnit failed it's time to error out -->
<Error Condition="$(TestsResult) != 'True'" Text="Unit Tests Failed" />

Answer 1

It was the <SetBuildProperties> that was the magic:

    <SetBuildProperties TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"
                        BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
                        CompilationStatus="Failed"
                        TestStatus="Failed"
                        Condition="'$(TestsResult)' != 'True'">
</SetBuildProperties>


<Error Condition="'$(TestsResult)'!='True'" Text="Smoke Tests Failed" />
<SetBuildProperties TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"
                        BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
                        CompilationStatus="Succeeded"
                        TestStatus="Succeeded"
                        Condition="'$(TestsResult)' != 'False'">
</SetBuildProperties>

I think it boils down to needing to signal the CompilationStatus and the TestStatus