Hudson 3 Essentials will provide the reader with a fast-paced and hands-on introduction to some of the many features of Hudson 3. This book will provide tools that can be used to improve the quality of software development projects. The reader will learn how to install and secure Hudson in various IT environments. This book will walk the reader through how to build, test, and deploy software.
Chapter 1, Why Hudson?, describes Hudson and explains how it can help many IT organizations to deliver higher quality software.
Chapter 2, Installing and Running Hudson, shows how Hudson can be installed and deployed in many different environments.
Chapter 3, Configuring and Securing Hudson, describes basic Hudson configuration and covers different methods to secure your Hudson installation.
Chapter 4, Installing and Developing Hudson Plugins, discusses several important Hudson plugins and explains how to extend the Hudson functionality by developing your own plugin.
Chapter 5, Building and Delivering with Hudson, shows how Hudson can be used to build several different types of software applications and how it can deploy a web application to an application server.
Chapter 6, Testing and Reporting with Hudson, covers how Hudson can be used to perform automated testing on software applications and generate reports describing the results.
Chapter 7, Upgrading Hudson and the Team Concept feature, goes through a basic Hudson upgrade and then demonstrates how to use the new Team Concept feature.
Appendix A, Online Resources, lists the websites for the products that were referenced in the book.
All that is required to use this book is a web browser, an Internet connection, Java, and the Hudson 3 distribution.
This book is for software developers who would like to automate some of the mundane work required to build and test software and improve software quality. A development manager or tester can also benefit by learning how Hudson works and gaining some visibility of test results and historical trends.
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