Azure DevOps —Build/Test/Collect Test Coverage and Publish Your Net 5 App

Let’s answer a question about how easy and fast you can set up your own Azure CI/CD pipeline.

Why even bother to create azure pipelines?

• Saving a lot of time as it can automate the whole process from pushing code to branch until release it to release server.
• Making applications more resilient to bugs by catching them before release.
• Making the release process resilient to human error as it can be fully automated.
• Create a self-documentation of releases/builds etc that can be used for reports.
• And much more…

Our pipeline will consist of 5 steps:

• Restore — restore all NuGet packages used in the solution.
• Build — Build a code to check if there is any build error.
• Test — Run all Unit/Integration tests and see a result. Fail if at least one test fails.
• Collect Tests Results — test results can be later used by external tools like Sonar Cube etc to provide code quality checks.
• Publish — Publish source code ready to release to server.

Pipeline code

To be able to get a code coverage report you will have to install two extra NuGet packages in your Net 5 application shown below.

Summary

Azure DevOps is a powerful tool that makes work with CI/CD a pleasure.
With the above pipeline, you are able to configure your first full pipeline in just a couple of seconds. Feel free to use it.