TeamCity Training

1. Introduction to Continuous Integration

Practices
Benefits
Continuous deployment and Continuous Delivery
The build pipeline

2. Introduction to TeamCity

Licensing
Features
First-class support for various technologies
Lots of plugins
REST API
Comprehensive VCS support
A nice dashboard UI and build history
Ease of setup and comprehensive documentation
Build pipeline/chains
Agents and build grids
IDE integrations

3. TeamCity and its competitors

Jenkins
ThoughtWorks' Go

4. Summary

1. Installing on Windows

Installing the server and the default agent
Installing additional agents

2. Installation on Mac OS X

Running the TeamCity server and the default agent
Setting up the TeamCity server as a daemon
Installing additional agents

3. Installation on Linux

Running the server and the default agent
Running the TeamCity server as a daemon
Installing additional agents

4. Summary

1. Introducing version control systems

Centralized versus distributed VCSs
VCSs and CI
VCS used in this book

2. Setting up CI

1. The sample project

2. Creating a project in TeamCity

Subprojects

3. Adding build configurations

VCS roots and VCS settings
Introducing the build steps
Running our first build
Build failure conditions
Triggering the build on VCS changes

4. Build chains

1. Deploying to Heroku

2. Adding functional tests

Parameters and build parameters

3. Setting up the build chain

Snapshot dependencies
The Finish build trigger
The Build chain view

5. Fine-tuning our setup

1. Adding coverage and unit test reports

Publishing reports as artifacts
XML report processing
Report tabs
Build and project statistics
Shared resources
Agent Requirements

1. Using Ant with TeamCity

Installing Ant
Building with Ant build files
Building with Ant in a build configuration
Adding some unit tests
Setting up code coverage
Build scripts versus TeamCity features
System properties and Ant

2. Using Maven with TeamCity

Installing Maven
Creating a Maven project
Introducing the Project Object Model (POM)
Building the project
Using Maven in a build configuration
Setting version number
Setting up code coverage for our build
Maven on TeamCity, beyond the build runner
Creating a Maven build configuration
Global Maven settings file
Setting up Maven-based triggers

3. Using Gradle with TeamCity

Installing Gradle
Building with Gradle on TeamCity

4. Introducing database migration tools

5. Summary

1. Getting started with NAnt on TeamCity

Installing NAnt
Building NAnt with NAnt
Building on TeamCity
Adding NUnit report processing
Configuring agent requirements

2. Building with MSBuild

Installing MSBuild
Starting an MSBuild project
Building with MSBuild on TeamCity
Adding an NUnit build runner
Running NUnit tests using NUnit task
Running NUnit tests using the task provided by TeamCity
Configuring code coverage with MSBuild

3. NuGet and TeamCity

Installing the NuGet command-line client
Installing NuGet.exe on TeamCity agents
TeamCity as a NuGet server
NuGet-based build runners
NuGet dependency trigger

4. Introducing PowerShell

PowerShell-based build tools
PowerShell build runner in TeamCity

5. Database migrations with .NET

6. Summary

1. Getting started with Rails

Managing Ruby versions
Introducing Bundler
Installing Rails using Bundler
Introducing Rake
Setting up the build on TeamCity
Setting up Ruby interpreter
Running Capybara- and Selenium-based feature tests

2. Summary

1. CI for Android projects

Generating the APK
Running Calabash tests

2. Building iOS projects on TeamCity

3. Installing TeamCity plugins

Installing the Python runner plugin
Building with the Python build runner
Introduction to TeamCity.Node plugin

4. Summary