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Synchronizing event-triggered tasks (continuous integration)

Dennis Jones — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:28:47 GMT

Hi,

I have several macros that get invoked using event-triggered tasks. However, since triggers can occur at any time, this can lead to ABS attempting to execute multiple macros in parallel, which is a problem because they may need access to certain resources (such as local SVN folders) which do not permit simultaneous access, or they may build the same source tree using different settings, or any one of several other potentially conflicting scenarios.

How does one ensure that event-triggered tasks execute serially?

- Dennis

Replace value in files

Razvan Bondei — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:09:21 GMT

Hi,
I need to replace a value from all files from a folder.
e.g. find and replace x.y with a.b in all files from a folder. Currently a didn't find any option to do that, only replace a string in a certain file from a certain folder.
Any ideas?

Thank you

Check In Files to TFVC issue with Notes option

Thibaut Appert — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:44:36 GMT

Hello,

We want to add the Code Reviewer Check-in Notes in Visual Studio mandatory for our daily use. To be able to do so I have to update all our ABS macro to avoid our builds to fail.

I checked the Notes option and add "Code Reviewer" as the Note name and "Build" as the Note text. But it fails to find this Note name, here is the ABS log :

TF10117: The following check-in note does not pass check-in requirement:
(Code Reviewer: The field '(Code Reviewer' does not exist.

A bracket is added for an unknown reason and I tried all the possibilities available but this bracket is always there. So it seems to be the cause of my problem.

Git Support

Wilkie Lam — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:16:44 GMT

Hi,

I'm using ABS v.6.30.729.0, and am trying to automate nightly build for a new project that uses Git. However, it does not appear Git is supported at all. Questions:

1) Does the newest ABS support Git? If not, is it in the works and is there a target date for release?

2) Any specific advice/examples on shelling to Git command lines?

Thank you in advance.

File Errors on Email Attached File

Wilkie Lam — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:44:45 GMT

I attached a text file to my email. The file has data in it and has 356 bytes. However, on the receiving end the size indicated is only 262 bytes and when I opened it, it's empty. What have I missed here?

"Execute Web Service Function" not recognizing the servers host file

Rick Mead — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:03:33 GMT

I created a site registered on the iis7 windows 2008 server and updated the host file to the sites address. I navigate to it from IE8. I created the wsdl from the web service. I implement it into a ABS project using the "Execute Web Service Function" and it errors out. Now if I push that same web site to our dev server and run, it all works. Its just not recognizing the host file. What can I do anything?

Using MS Setup Project Builds bootstrap and suddenly requires .NET 4.0

Sheree Ervin — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:10:32 GMT

Greetings,
I am attempting to have Automated Build Studio 6.30 use the feature MS Setup Project to build an installer. It reads everything in correctly based on the configuration settings. However, when I go to test the installer that I built with Automated Build Studio, I find that the Bootstrap requires .NET 4.0 to be installed before it will install our product. It should be looking for .NET 3.5.   NOTE: if I only install via the .msi file, it will look for .NET 3.5. It seem to only be the Bootstrap.

I looked at the .vdproj file via notepad and the bootstrap there tells me it's looking for .net 3.5
Here is what it looks like:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"InstallerBootstrapper" = "3:2"
            "BootstrapperCfg:{63ACBE69-63AA-4F98-B2B6-99F9E24495F2}"
            {
            "Enabled" = "11:TRUE"
            "PromptEnabled" = "11:TRUE"
            "PrerequisitesLocation" = "2:1"
            "Url" = "8:"
            "ComponentsUrl" = "8:"
                "Items"
                {
                    "{EDC2488A-8267-493A-A98E-7D9C3B36CDF3}:Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1"
                    {
                    "Name" = "8:.NET Framework 3.5 SP1"
                    "ProductCode" = "8:Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1"
                    }
                    "{EDC2488A-8267-493A-A98E-7D9C3B36CDF3}:Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1"
                    {
                    "Name" = "8:Windows Installer 3.1"
                    "ProductCode" = "8:Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I can also tell you later in the script is shows "Allow Later Version" = FALSE. I am not sure why the tool in ABS seems to think I need .NET 4.0.

Could you please guide me on what I need to set to make this resolve to using .NET 3.5? I have not had any luck getting things to build using the devenv command via the command line and this seems much cleaner.

Thank you
Sheree Ervin

Support for MSVS 2012 (VC++11)

Clayton Dean — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:13:38 GMT

Does Automated Build Studio support MSVS 2012 (VC++11) yet?

In which version and when will ABS with VC++ 11 be available/supported?

We are currently using ABS in our Continuous Integration/Nightly Build processes.

It is vital to our next release that we be able to test MSVS 2012 as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Clayton Dean

Development Manager

Rogue Wave Software

303.545.3152

Build hangs during set/clear file attributes

Joeri Sebrechts — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:24:12 GMT

Our builds hang when trying to clear read-only attributes on a network path (UNC path). The user that runs the build process does have access rights to the network path. The build doesn't give errors, it just hangs and eventually times out.

Any ideas how I could go about troubleshooting this?

Thanks!

ADL - End of Life

Sergei Sokolov — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:47:59 GMT

Dear Automatic Docking Library Customers:

We would like to inform you that we are initiating an End of Life (EOL) program for the Automatic Docking Library product (ADL). SmartBear Software has stopped all new development, enhancements, and sales of ADL.

Customers with active support contracts will be able to access SmartBear support resources through the expiration date of their contracts using our standard support email: support@automatedqa.com. SmartBear will also maintain the ADL forum as a community resource for the current ADL users, to exchange technical experience and access community based support.

We are cautiously considering donating the Automatic Docking Library to open source. No decisions have been yet made in this regard, and we will post any further news on the ADL forum. If you have any specific suggestions about suitable open source options, or are willing to volunteer as the maintainer of this project, please drop us a note on the forum.

Thank you for using SmartBear products! We continue to invest in new and existing products, so please check back with us often!

The SmartBear Team

www.smartbear.com

Subversion status not correctly interpreting out-of-date files

Clayton Arends — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:07:35 GMT

Before reading this post please note that I cannot provide the actual names of dialogs, controls, or other settings since my ABS trial has expired. I have tried my best to recall from memory.

While testing the "Subversion Status" operation I noticed that the "out of date" variable is always populated with a 0 value. I have checked the "show updates" checkbox (the one that corresponds to using the --show-updates flag) and alternatively supplied the "--show-updates" flag manually.

To work around this problem I have exported the entire result of the operation to a variable named "SVN_STATUS" and created a JScript script operation to correctly parse it:

function Main()
{
var outOfDateCount = 0;
var strArray = Variables.SVN_STATUS.split("\n");
for (var i = 0; i <; strArray.length; ++i)
{
if (strArray[i].charAt(8) == "*")
++outOfDateCount;
}
Variables.SVN_OUT_OF_DATE = outOfDateCount;
}

I found some old Subversion documentation that mentioned the out-of-date flag (*) is in the seventh column. All of the latest documentation states that the flag is in the ninth column. Notice that my script looks at character 8 (0-based array access) to retrieve the flag. Perhaps ABS's built-in support is looking in the wrong column for the flag?

Or maybe something else is wrong on my end? I tried a lot of different combinations of flags and settings and the only sure way to retrieve the number of server-side changed files was to use the above script.

Since my trial has expired I will not be able to try any suggestions or patches until I either extend my trial or purchase the product.

"Find/Replace in File" changes file encoding?

Robert Wachtel — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:17:02 GMT

Just installed ABS 6.31.777.0.

I have an UTF-8 encoded text file. Applying the "Find/Replace in File" action (with two replace conditions - both are Regular expressions) the resulting file is encoded UTF-16.

It's not expected behaviour I think.

Workaround for me is changing the char set encoding back to UTF-8 using charsc.exe (via Google).

Automated Build Studio - TFS 2010

John Q — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:24:03 GMT

We recently upgraded to TFS 2010 and use ABS to help run the builds. After the upgrade, the function 'Get File(s) From TFVC' started deleting files from a folder that it should not be deleting. This was not an issue prior to the upgrade and was wondering if there is some settings change or option that should be fixed to resolve this issue. It should only be getting files by label and not deleting anything.

Getting started building C++Builder/Delphi projects

Clayton Arends — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:03:33 GMT

I recently installed the trial version of ABS. I have created a macro file and am simply trying to build a project group for RAD Studio 2009. I added the "Compile RAD Studio 2009 Project Group" operation and assigned an existing full path to the "Project group" value. If I run this macro ABS displays a dialog with the following error message in it: "Unable to find CodeGear RAD Studio". I looked in "Options | Tools" for CodeGear, RAD Studio, Embarcadero, Delphi, and C++Builder and did not find any of these. Where is ABS looking to determine if CodeGear RAD Studio exists? And before you ask -- yes, RAD Studio 2009 is installed ;-).

Since this didn't work I attempted to build a single Delphi project with the intent to build each file from the project group via separate ABS macro operations. This also did not work. I received the following error messages in the output log:

[Fatal] : C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\Bin\CodeGear.Delphi.Targets(123,3): error : myproj.dpk(32) : E2202 Required package 'rtl' not found

Failed to execute the "Compile Delphi 2009 for Win32 Project" operation.

Since this did not work I added "Execute Program" operations which run my existing .bat files that I have been using prior to trying out ABS to build this project group. This does work. Here is an example .bat file:

@echo off
call "%RAD6%\bin\rsvars.bat"
set Win32LibraryPath=%BDS%\Lib
msbuild /verbosity:quiet /t:Build /p:Config=Debug my_group.groupproj

FWIW, RAD6 is a system environment variable set to the root of RAD Studio 2009 ("C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0").

Any idea as to what I need to do to get the built-in build operations to work? My build computer is Win 2008 Server R2 (if that helps).
Option 1 (build project group) is easy but it probably won't server my needs since I need to build projects for both Debug and Release, and I don't see any settings that can help with this.
Option 2 (build each project separately) should allow me to have control over Debug/Release but I'm baffled as to why the compiler can't find the rtl package. If I knew what ABS does "under the hood" that might help me figure out what it needs.

My ultimate goal is to set up an ABS macro that will be used in a continuous integration environment. It will update from Subversion and build only if changes were made. I would really like a build to happen XX minutes after someone checks in a change to SVN (if someone checks in to the repository during those XX minutes then the timer should restart); however, if that isn't possible I can live with building at set times during the day. So, if anyone has tips for how I can set this up in ABS I would be very grateful for the info.

Thank you,
Clayton

Web interface seems to require an active RDP connection to build server.

Liam Maughan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:42:06 GMT

I'm having some issues executing builds using the web interface.

We have a build server running Windows 7 Professional, that has ABS and Visual Studio installed on it. Using RDP, we can connect to this server and run our build macros directly from Automated Build Studio with no problems.

If I have an open RDP session to the build server and I execute the macro via the web interface on my local machine (with the same domain account that I am RDP'd in with) then the macro works.

If I run the same macro via the web interface without an open RDP session, or under a different domain account than the one RDP'd in, then the macro fails when trying to create the target directories. All domain accounts have the necessary folder permissions, so it's not that.

Is there any way for me to run macros from the web interface without maintaining an open RDP session with the above setup?