How can I trigger my automated test plan in bamboo on a successful deployment?

[RobertLyndonDavis]

I have a bamboo plan which is triggered on repository changes. It in turn triggers a deployment project out to my CI server. This all works great except the last step in the process. How do I then trigger my automated test plan once my deployment has finished? It seems that deployments can't trigger plans, only plans can trigger deployments. Are there any ways around this?

[Nirmal Shankar]

Deployment pipleline doesnt let you trigger a build plan. But a better way to go about is this

1) Have build plan create your artifacts/deployables.

2) Run the deployment pipleline

3) As a last step to deployment pipeline, run the automated test (which I guess would be some kind of scripts)

[RobertLyndonDavis]

Thanks for the answer. The one reason I can't do that is because my test require saving of artifacts to work out what went wrong if any tests fail. The deployment pipeline doesn't support saving of artifacts.

[Timothy]

Seems that you deployment should be part of the build plan instead of deployment plan. Have you considered the option of using 3 stages in your build plan?

[RobertLyndonDavis]

yeah I've thought about that. The problem is that I want my CI build to create (which it does now) a release according to a naming convention template I've set up. Then the test teams can easily see which environments have this release and one click deploy it out. I can't do that if the build doesn't the deployment as there is no mechanism that I can find to create a release during a build.

[RobertLyndonDavis]

At the moment I've gotten around this by making the last stop of my build fire off a REST post request to the build api which kicks off my test plan.