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    <p>I'm trying to configure a set of build configurations in TeamCity 6 and am trying to model a specific requirement in the cleanest possible manner way enabled by TeamCity.</p> <p>I have a set of acceptance tests (around 4-8 suites of tests grouped by the functional area of the system they pertain to) that I wish to run in parallel (I'll model them as build configurations so they can be distributed across a set of agents).</p> <p>From my initial research, it seems that having a <code>AcceptanceTests</code> meta-build config that pulls in the set of individual Acceptance test configs via <a href="http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/TCD6/Dependent+Build#DependentBuild-SnapshotDependency" rel="nofollow">Snapshot dependencies</a> should do the trick. Then all I have to do is say that my <code>Commit</code> build config should trigger <code>AcceptanceTests</code> and they'll all get pulled in. So, lets say I also have <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code>, <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> and <code>AcceptanceSuiteC</code></p> <p>So far, so good (I know I could also turn it around the other way and cause the <code>Commit</code> config to trigger <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code>, <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> and <code>AcceptanceSuiteC</code> - problem there is I need to manually aggregate the results to determine the overall success of the acceptance tests as a whole).</p> <p>The complicating bit is that while <code>AcceptanceSuiteC</code> just needs some <code>Commit</code> artifacts and can then live on it's own, <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code> and <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> need to:</p> <ul> <li><code>DeploySite</code> (lets say it takes 2 minutes and I cant afford to spin up a completely isolated one just for this run)</li> <li>Run tests against the deployed site</li> </ul> <p>The problem is that I need to be able to ensure that:</p> <ul> <li>the website only gets configured once</li> <li>The website does not get clobbered while the two suites are running</li> </ul> <p>If I set up <code>DeploySite</code> as a build config and have <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code> and <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> pull it in as a snapshot dependency, AFAICT:</p> <ul> <li>a subsequent or parallel run of <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> could trigger another <code>DeploySite</code> which would clobber the deployment that <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code> and/or <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> are in the middle of using.</li> </ul> <p>While I can say <em>Limit the number of simultaneously running builds</em> to force only one to happen at a time, I need to have one at a time <strong>and</strong> not while the dependent pieces are still running.</p> <p>Is there a way in TeamCity to model such a hierarchy?</p> <p>EDIT: Ideas:-</p> <p>A crap solution is that <code>DeploySite</code> could set a 'in use flag' marker and then have the <code>AcceptanceTests</code> config clear that flag [after <code>AcceptanceSuiteA</code> and <code>AcceptanceSuiteB</code> have completed]. The problem then becomes one of having the next <code>DeploySite</code> down the pipeline wait until said gate has been opened again (Doing a blocking wait within the build, doesnt feel right - I want it to be flagged as 'not yet started' rather than looking like it's taking a long time to do something). However this sort of stuff a flag over here and have this bit check it is the sort of mutable state / flakiness smell I'm trying to get away from.</p> <p>EDIT 2: if I could programmatically alter the agent configuration, I could set <a href="http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/TCD6/Agent+Requirements" rel="nofollow">Agent Requirements</a> to require <em>InUse=false</em> and then set the flag when a deploy starts and clear it after the tests have run</p>
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    1. COLooks like this has been covered on the [JB JIRA](http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/TW-3798) and [devnet](http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5212199#5212199)
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