sfdc-ant-build-script

Build script for Salesforce projects

Prerequisites

1. Ant version greater than 1.6, tested with 1.10.1 (latest version).

2. Install Java, ant, and the Force.com Migration Tool (ant-salesforce.jar)

3. Copy ./build-sample.properties to ../../build.properties (two directories up)

4. Update ../../build.properties with your own usernames and passwords

Commands

See the build.xml for the definitive list of commands. Typical syntax is:

ant dev2qa -Dversion=1.0

This will command will:

• retrieve the Salesforce metadata from the dev environment based upon package-1.0.xml
• store this metadata in a local folder called dev sprint 1.0
• copy destructiveChanges-1.0.xml (if it exists) to dev sprint 1.0/destructiveChanges.xml
• deploy this metadata to the qa environment

Our environment flow looks like:

Often used commands are:

ant local2dev -Dversion=1.0 -Dsource=dev
ant local2itdev -Dversion=1.0 -Dsource=dev
ant dev2full -Dversion=1.0
ant qa2full -Dversion=1.0
ant itdev2full -Dversion=1.0
ant itdev2full-specified-tests -Dversion=1.0 -DspecifiedTests=TestClassName
ant full2prod -Dversion=1.0
ant full2prod-specified-tests -Dversion=1.0 -DspecifiedTests=TestClassName

Optional parameters exist for checkOnly and/or runAllTests (which default to false). For example:

ant dev2qa -Dversion=3.6 -DcheckOnly=true -DrunAllTests=true