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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Jenkins configuration


In order to assist the Jenkins jobs that perform various functions to achieve Continuous Delivery, we need to make some changes in the Jenkins configuration. We will see some newly introduced features in Jenkins in this section.

Configuring the performance plugin

The performance plugin will be used to publish performance test report. Follow the these steps to install it:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins. This will take you to the Manage Jenkins page.

  2. Click on the Manage Plugins link and go to the Available tab.

  3. Type performance plugin in the search box.

  4. Select Performance plugin from the list and click on the Install without restart button:

  5. The download and installation of the plugin will start automatically:

Configuring the TestNG plugin

The TestNG plugin will be used to publish the user acceptance test report. Follow these steps to install it:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins. This will take you to the Manage Jenkins page.

  2. Click on the Manage...