================================================================================== == Instruments for gathering and comparing the settings on a tested environment == ================================================================================== I. Binaries used. 1. SettingsReader.Web.exe : a Roblox in-house tool written by Yuri Belotserkovsky that gets the settings values from the database on the given instance (sitetest1/2/3 in case of web settings, gametest* in case of client FastFlags) * CommandLine.dll is a dependency for the tool, it also uses Newtonsoft.Json.dll that is copied from Automation\External\DLLs 2. diff.exe : a GNU open-source diff tool implementation for Windows, provides a well-formatted and very readable output of the difference between 2 files. * Source: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ * libiconv2.dll, libintl3.dll are dependencies for diff.exe, source is the same: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ II. Syntax (as used in TeamCity) > GetSettings.bat * : the name of the instance the tests are run on, specified in build parameters on TC * : the file where the settings are stored; is compared to previous settings file and then exported to build artifacts * : the settings from previous build, fetched from previous build's artifacts; compared with current settings dump * : the file where the diff output is stored; exported to artifacts