TICS Azure DevOps Plugin

This plugin provides integration of TICS Quality Analysis and Quality Gating functionalities for Azure Pipelines. For an earlier version of Azure DevOps Server, i.e. Team Foundation Server 2018 and Team Foundation Server 2017 please install an earlier version of this plugin (TICS TFS Plugin). See below for more details. The earlier TICS TFS Plugin currently supports TICS Quality Analysis but not Quality Gating.

Prerequisites

To use this plugin as part of a build configuration or pipeline for a given project, you need to have a valid TICS installation. It is assumed your build agent is capable of running TICSQServer.

Usage

The plugin contains two build tasks, namely TICS Quality Analysis and TICS Quality Gate. To get access to the quality gating API of the TICS Viewer you also need to configure a Service Connection.

TICS Quality Analysis

On your project pipeline add the TICS Quality Analysis task. You can select this from the task assistant.
Configure the necessary details for TICS analysis.

TICS Quality Gate

Before you add this task, configure a TICS Viewer Connection as shown here
Add TICS Quality Gate Task to your pipeline
In the TICS Quality Gate Task configuration select the TICS Viewer connection.
Save and run your pipeline
You should see the quality gate summary in the Extensions tab of the Build Summary Page.

TICS Viewer Service Connection Configuration

Navigate to your project within your Azure DevOps organization.
Open Project Settings.
Click on the Service Connections menu.
Click New Service Connection button.
Select TICS Viewer from the list of Service Connections.
Enter the TICS Viewer connection and authentication details.
Save the new Service Connection

TICS Team Foundation Server (TFS) plugin

The TICS TFS Plugin provides a build step that invokes TICS. This build step can be added to any build definition.

Using the plugin requires installing it into your instance of Team Foundation Server. Only fully updated versions of TFS 2017 and TFS 2018 are supported.

Installation

Follow the steps below to download and install the plugin in TFS.

Go to the TICS download site and download the latest available version of the plugin (.vsix extension). Click to download.
In Team Foundation Server, go to Browse TFS extensions via the Marketplace icon in the top-right corner.
Scroll down to find the Manage extensions button.
Click the Upload new extension button and upload the file you downloaded earlier.
The plugin should be listed in the list of extensions now. Click the install button to install it to a team project collection.

Using the TICS build step

This build steps runs TICS as part of a TFS build definition. Requirements:

You need to have TICS installed on the machine (agent) on which you want to run the job.

To configure this build step:

Click the "Add build step" button in your build definition and find the "Run TICS" step (under the "Build category)
Provide the required settings. Click the information icon for each option to get help.
More advanced options become available when you expand the "Advanced" category.
Save the settings and choose Queue new build to execute the job.