Title: Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook, 2nd Edition
Author: Alan Mark Berg
Length: 360 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2015-01-29
ISBN-10: 1784390089
ISBN-13: 9781784390082
Over 90 recipes to produce great results from Jenkins using pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions
About This Book
Explore the use of more than 40 best-of-breed plug-ins for improving efficiency
Secure and maintain Jenkins by integrating it with LDAP and CAS, which is a Single Sign-on solution
Step-by-step, easy-to-use instructions to optimize the existing features of Jenkins using the complete set of plug-ins that Jenkins offers
Who This Book Is For
If you are a Java developer, a software architect, a technical project manager, a build manager, or a development or QA engineer, then this book is ideal for you.
A basic understanding of the software development life cycle and Java development is needed, as well as a rudimentary understanding of Jenkins.
In Detail
Jenkins is an award-wining and 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 starts by examining the most common maintenance tasks. This is followed by steps that enable you to enhance the overall security of Jenkins. You will then explore the relationship between Jenkins builds and Maven pom.xml. Then, you will learn how to use plugins to display code metrics and fail builds 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
Chapter 1: Maintaining Jenkins
Chapter 2: Enhancing Security
Chapter 3: Building Software
Chapter 4: Communicating through Jenkins
Chapter 5: Using Metrics to Improve Quality
Chapter 6: Testing Remotely
Chapter 7: Exploring Plugins
Appendix: Processes That Improve Quality
