R – Deploying ASP.NET Web Applications from Hudson Build/CI Server

Cruise Control.net (ccnet) does everything you are looking for. Its pretty easy to use, just make sure if you are going to run it as a service, you give it an account and don't make it run as network service, that way you can give it rights on intranet boxes and have it do xcopy deploys.

It has all kinds of email modes, on failure, on all, on fix after failure, and many many more.

I don't know if you're already doing this, but I think that the following snippet of the ant testing task can help you

<target name="test" depends="test.compile" description="runs junit tests">

        <taskdef name="junit"
            classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask"
            classpath="${script.dir}/tools/ant-junit.jar"/>

        <junit haltonfailure="no" printsummary="on" fork="yes">
            <classpath>
                 <path refid="web.classpath.compile"/>
                 <pathelement location="${test.build.dir.classes}"/>
                 <pathelement location="${web.build.dir.classes}"/>
            </classpath>
            <formatter type="brief" usefile="false"/>
            <formatter type="xml"/>
            <batchtest todir="${script.dir}/test-results">
                <fileset dir="${test.build.dir.src}"
                        includes="**/*Test.java"/>
            </batchtest>
        </junit>
    </target>

With this configuration you are creating a "junit" task implemented by the "org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask" that can be located at the ant-junit.jar package.

Afterwards, directly invoke the target and set an xml formatter.

We are also using Hudson, it simply sends the URL of the recently build failed, and, from there, we can access the tests results generated by the previously described task with the trace of the AssertionFailedError.

Hope it helps.

Carlos