How to make TeamCity build fail if artifacts are not found?

Question

Is it posible to fail TeamCity builds if artifacts are not found? I mean without writing any special script, i.e. does TeamCity has such built-in functionality?

Answer 1

No, you're going to have to implement that functionality into your build script.

i.e. if you are using MSBUILD .. after everything is complete run the following command:

<Error Condition="!Exists('someArtifact.txt')" Text="Error!!! Artifact doesn't exist" />

Answer 2

In TeamCity 7.x you can catch this using a build failure condition. You can add a condition in your build configuration to fail on specific text found in a build log.

For example fail on text:

    Artifact path file.txt not found

This works, I use it in my builds to catch missing artifacts.