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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
Book Image

Extending Jenkins

By: Donald Simpson

Overview of this book

Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. It is written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to support the building and testing of virtually any project. Jenkins supports multiple Software Configuration Management tools such as Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. This book explores and explains the many extension points and customizations that Jenkins offers its users, and teaches you how to develop your own Jenkins extensions and plugins. First, you will learn how to adapt Jenkins and leverage its abilities to empower DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Agile projects. Next, you will find out how to reduce the cost of modern software development, increase the quality of deliveries, and thereby reduce the time to market. We will also teach you how to create your own custom plugins using Extension points. Finally, we will show you how to combine everything you learned over the course of the book into one real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Extending Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


As you can see, there is a large range of options and approaches available for both testing and debugging within Jenkins. This chapter introduced some of the main tools and approaches that you may hopefully find useful for your own development processes.

Knowing how to test and debug your code and set up a productive development environment that suits your needs and preferences should improve the quality of your own development. It should also make things much easier further down the line, when you look at distributing your own plugin and are considering alternative development options. We will take a look at some alternative technologies and languages in the next chapter.