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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By: Jean-Marcel Belmont

Overview of this book

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery starts with the fundamentals of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and where it fits in the DevOps ecosystem. You will explore the importance of stakeholder collaboration as part of CI/CD. As you make your way through the chapters, you will get to grips with Jenkins UI, and learn to install Jenkins on different platforms, add plugins, and write freestyle scripts. Next, you will gain hands-on experience of developing plugins with Jenkins UI, building the Jenkins 2.0 pipeline, and performing Docker integration. In the concluding chapters, you will install Travis CI and Circle CI and carry out scripting, logging, and debugging, helping you to acquire a broad knowledge of CI/CD with Travis CI and CircleCI. By the end of this book, you will have a detailed understanding of best practices for CI/CD systems and be able to implement them with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Best practices for different types of testing in CI/CD

In Chapter 3, Basics of Continuous Delivery, we went over acceptance testing and spoke briefly about how an acceptance test suite can serve as a regression test suite. In this section, we will talk about different types of software testing that you can do and formulate some best practices with each type of test. We will go over the following types of tests:

  • Smoke testing
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • System testing
  • Acceptance testing

Smoke testing

Smoke tests are a special kind of test that help verify basic functionality in your application. Smoke tests will assume some basic implementation and environmental setup. Smoke tests are typically run at the beginning of...