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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
Book Image

Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg

Overview of this book

Jenkins 2.x is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers in the market today. It was designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process. This book will begin by guiding you through steps for installing and configuring Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure. This is followed by steps that enable you to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x. You will also explore the ways to enhance the overall security of Jenkins 2.x. You will then explore the steps involved in improving the code quality using SonarQube. Then, you will learn the ways to improve quality, followed by how to run performance and functional tests against a web application and web services. Finally, you will see what the available plugins are, concluding with best practices to improve quality.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

And there's always more

There are always more points to consider. Here are a few of the cherry-picked ones:

  • Blurring the team boundary: Tools such as FitNesse and Selenium IDE make it easier for non-Java programmers to write tests. The easier it is to write tests, the more likely it is that the relevant tests capture the quintessential details of user expectations. Look for new Jenkins plugins that support tools, which lower the learning curve.
  • Deliberately adding defects: By rotating through Jenkins builds and then deliberately adding code that fails, you can test the alertness and response time of the team.
  • Increasing code coverage with link crawlers and security scanners: A fuzzer discovers the inputs of the application it is attacking and then fires off unexpected input. Not only is this good for security testing, but also for boundary testing. If your server returns...