Build completion alerts does not show static analysis warnings in TFS 2012

Problem description:

While working on an issue recently, we found that build completion alerts does not show static analysis warnings.

Explanation:

There is a difference between compilation warnings and static analysis warnings.

When the build gets completely, in UI, it will show you both type of warnings combined like below:

Solution and troubleshooting Steps:

So on the above result basis, when you configure buildcompletionevent alerts, you will expect that it should show the same warning.

But what we found in email alert was 19 errors and 0 warnings and that’s where catch was and it had to be diagnosed thoroughly as provided below:

Step 1:

So first tbl_buildinformation table was queried and it was having this xml:

<Field Name="CompilationWarnings"><Value>0</Value></Field>

<Field Name="Flavor"><Value>Release</Value></Field>

<Field Name="LocalPath"><Value>C:\Builds\AgentBuild\abc.sln</Value></Field>

Step 2:

Then looking at BuildCompletedEvent.xsl, led us to find following lines:

<xsl:value-of select="tb:Fields/tb:InformationField[@Name = 'TotalCompilationErrors']/@Value"/> error(s),

<xsl:value-of select="tb:Fields/tb:InformationField[@Name = 'TotalCompilationWarnings']/@Value"/> compilation warnings(s),

Add digging deep into that led us to find one more line in it:

<xsl:value-of select="tb:Fields/tb:InformationField[@Name = 'TotalStaticAnalysisWarnings']/@Value"/> static analysis warning(s)

After that you will have alerts with both type of warnings separately visible like below, hence issue solved!!

Written by: Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer

Reviewed by: George Archer(Senior Escalation Engineer), Nitish Nagpal(Support Escalation Engineer)

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