Bamboo Failure Conditions

Question

I'm evaluating Bamboo and would like to know if it's possible to fail a build based on a comparison of metric deltas with prior builds.  Sample use-case would be: fail if code coverage drops and lines of code increases or remains the same.

Thanks in advance.

dustin_barnes · Answer

I went through this. Long story short, if you're using a modern bamboo (> 5.1) , there is NOTHING that currently exists to track code quality. Not even to report it in a nice way. The checkstyle/coberture/etc plugins haven't been touched in years. Bamboo itself doesn't handle it. I find it to be one of the biggest shortcomings of the Bamboo tool.

If quality metrics are a core part of your build (as they are mine), you'll have to find another solution...

Kyle Varga · Answer

I haven't seen such a thing. However, you could probably make a script to handle it. For example

Build 1:

* Run build
* Calculate test coverage
* Upload test coverage to FTP or somewhere else

Build 2:

* Run build
* Calculate test coverage
* Compare test coverage to FTP Site / etc
* Return 1 if it should error, 0 if not. etc

It is not ideal, but would work with not much outside dependencies. Maybe a way to do this using build artificats as well, but not positive.

Ben Dry · Answer

We are in the exact same situation and would also like to know this.