Application Lifecycle Management for BizTalk solutions is quite challenging. Many community tools are available, but it’s not straightforward to combine them into one solution. In this session, Toon will focus on how to set up Continuous Integration for your BizTalk solutions, based on experience from the field. Some tips and tricks on automatic unit testing, build, deployment and integration testing.

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2. Integration Monday
BizTalk ALM byToonVanhoutte

3. Nice to meet you
ToonVANHOUTTE
Integration Architect
toon.vanhoutte@codit.eu
+32 479 905 115
@ToonVanhoutte
+9 years Microsoft Integration
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Specific interest in ALM & B2B
AS4 OASIS Committee Member

4. Agenda
Scope UnitTest Build Deploy
Continuous
Integration
Integration
Test

5. Scope
➔ Focused on Continuous Integration
➔ Technical side of BizTalk ALM
➔ Based on community software
➔ On premise, although cloud is very similar
➔ Not covered in this session:
➔ TFS details, branching, versioning strategy, automatic release notes,
load testing, test coverage, check-in policies, NuGet, SCRUM,…
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6. I’m uncertain to change a
setting of this complex flat
file schema.
I’ll make a copy of this
pipeline component. It’s
used in too many flows.
When regenerating
schemas, I often forget to
update property promotion.
Deployment is too complex
for operation team, so I
spend a lot of time on that.
Old bugs are returning in
new releases. This
regression is unacceptable.
We can’t afford a long
downtime on production for
deployments.
We need faster release
cycles to fulfill the fast
changing business needs.
Existing pain points from the field

7. Application Lifecycle Management
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Analyze
Requirements
Analysis Template
Functional
Technical
Develop
Team
Dependencies
Source Control
Release
Versioning
Build
Deploy
Upgrade
Maintain
Support
Hotfixes
Monitor

8. Continuous Integration
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Methodology
Code Repository
Daily Check-In
Build Automation
Test Automation
Deploy Automation
Advantages
Early bug detection
Quality of delivery
Increased release cadence
Disadvantages
Initial setup
Extra cost: hard- & software
Continuous maintenance
Return on
Investment?

9. Bringing it all together
9
BTS
CIALM
No out-of-the-box BTS support in TFS
No out-of-the-box BTS deployment tool
Integration testing instead of unit testing
Customize build workflow
Buy, DIY or use community tools
Auto testing on deployed BizTalk environment
Granularity of deployment
Fine grained solution structure

10. Scenario
10
ERP
System
Receive Port
rl_Invoices.SQL
GenericXmlReceive
SQL Debatch
Orchestration
Router
Routing
Set Destination + DestinationType
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Codit.FILE
spl_CoditInvoice
FILE
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Microsoft.FILE
spl_MicrosoftInvoice
FILE
Transform
Create
Flat File
Set
FileName
Orchestration
Currency Converter
Transform
CreateConvert Request
Transform
Merge Convert Response
Send Port
sp_CurrencyConverter.WCF
PassThruTransmit
XMLReceive
WCF
WCF
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Northwind.FILE
PassTrhuTransmit
FILE
Currency
Converter
BizTalk.Demo.ALM.Core BizTalk.Demo.ALM.Invoicing

11. UnitTesting
Tests running on the codebase (without a deployed BizTalk application)
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➔ Use UnitTests also to increase productivity (developer tools)
➔ Create data-driven UnitTests
➔ Create a least one UnitTest per bug
➔ Focus also on negative testing
➔ UnitTests are valuable for:
➔ .NET libraries
➔ Schemas
➔ Maps
➔ Pipelines
➔ Pipeline Components

12. UnitTesting
UnitTesting of a Flat File Schema
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➔ Create a data-driven test
➔ Use Winterdom SchemaTester

13. UnitTesting
UnitTesting of a Map
13
➔ Use BizTalk MapTest Framework
➔ Create on base test (only 1 template file to maintain)
➔ Support for generated dates and GUIDs
➔ Define multiple test cases / variations within UnitTests
• Custom libraries called from the map
• Decision logic
• Looping logic
• Grouping logic
• Sorting logic
• Calculation logic
• …

14. UnitTesting
UnitTesting of pipelines and pipeline components
14
➔ Use Winterdom PipelineTester
➔ Generate pipelines on the flow
➔ Test on message content and context:
➔ Debatching
➔ Property promotion via schemas + disassembler
➔ Property promotion via custom components
➔ Transforms or content modifications within pipelines

15. Automated Build
15
Continuous build for UnitTesting
Source Control
 Check-In
 Branching
 Labeling
1
Build Workflow
 Get Code Base
 Build
 Unit Testing
2

16. Automatic Deployment
Several options available
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➔ Standard BizTalk MSI + pre/post processing scripts
➔ PowerShell + Microsoft deployment libraries
➔ BizTalk Deployment Framework (here)
➔ MSBuild Extension Pack for BizTalk (here)
➔ BtsMsiTask (here)
➔ Codit DeployFx + ALM Suite (here)

17. BizTalk Deployment Framework
Features
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➔ Create BTDF MSI during build (without deploy)
➔ Binding File Management via Excel
➔ Automatic deployment with PowerShell
➔ Versioning of MSI
➔ Deployment on BizTalk application level
➔ Fully extensible

18. Automated Build
18
Deployment build with versioning and deployment
Source Control
 Check-In
 Branching
 Labeling
1
Build Workflow
 Get Code Base
 Build
 Unit Testing
2
Build Workflow
 Get Code Base
 Versioning
 Build
 Unit Testing
 Deployment
Auto Deploy
 Import MSI (*)
 Install MSI (*)
 D/T/A/P
3 ACC
PROD

19. PowerShell Scripts
➔ BTDF-UpdateVersion.ps1
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Based on BizTalk ALM Codeplex
➔ Updates AssemblyFileVersion for each assembly
➔ Updates BTDF MSIVersion

20. PowerShell Scripts
➔ TFS-CopyFilesToDropFolder.ps1
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Based on BizTalk ALM Codeplex
➔ Copies files from build agent folder to Build Output
➔ Copies all required files into a deployable package
Build Agent Folder Build Output

21. PowerShell Scripts
➔ BTDF-Deploy.ps1
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Based on BizTalk ALM Codeplex
➔ Deploys all MSI’s in the package, taking into
account application references and archive location
Deploy Package
Archive
BizTalk
Core-3.0.0.msi
Invoicing-1.0.0.msi
Invoicing-2.0.0.msi
Core-4.0.0.msi
Core  Invoicing
➔ Undeploy Invoicing
➔ Undeploy Core
➔ Deploy Core-4.0.0.msi
➔ Deploy Invoicing-2.0.0.msi
➔ Archive Core-4.0.0.msi

22. IntegrationTesting usingTransmock
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ERP
System
Receive Port
rl_Invoices.SQL
GenericXmlReceive
SQL Debatch
Orchestration
Router
Routing
Set Destination + DestinationType
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Codit.FILE
spl_CoditInvoice
FILE
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Microsoft.FILE
spl_MicrosoftInvoice
FILE
Transform
Create
Flat File
Set
FileName
Orchestration
Currency Converter
Transform
CreateConvert Request
Transform
Merge Convert Response
Send Port
sp_CurrencyConverter.WCF
PassThruTransmit
XMLReceive
WCF
WCF
Send Port
sp_Invoice_Northwind.FILE
PassTrhuTransmit
FILE
Currency
Converter
BizUnit Test Case
Mock
Mock
MockSendStep MockReceiveStep
Mockifier

23. Automated Build
23
Deployment build with versioning, deployment and integration testing
Source Control
 Check-In
 Branching
 Labeling
1
2
Build Workflow
 Get Code Base
 Versioning
 Build
 Unit Testing
 Deployment
Auto Deploy
 Import MSI (*)
 Install MSI (*)
 D/T/A/P
3 ACC
PROD
Build Workflow
 Get Code Base
 Versioning
 Build
 Unit Testing
 Deployment
 Integration Test

24. Winterdom
Pipeline &
Schema
Testing
...
BizTalk
Map Test
Framework
BizTalk
Deployment
Framework
BizTalk ALM
Guidance
Transmock
Integration
Testing
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