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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
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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)

Training and community

Training and participating in Jenkins and the wider tester community are vital for long-term learning paths that lead to optimized environments. Here are a few relevant resources:

When starting with an online community, it is wise to first review and participate in the mailing lists. This allows you to judge your own standard and gradually become recognized. The mailing lists are summarized at http://jenkins-ci.org/content/mailing-lists. Once you are confident that you can productively participate, consider progressing to real-time interactions through the IRC channel at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/IRC+Channel. The ISTQB software certification body keeps example documentation on its website for its software tester exams. You can find the documentation at http://www.istqb.org/downloads.html.

Additionally, it is important to have internal trainings...