On top of pull requests auto-build, BuildHive now allows you to push changes directly in via ssh. I call this feature “validated merge”. If you are an active developer of a repository, chances are that you don’t use pull requests to send in changes. You probably just push changes directly into your repository instead. But…
Category: jenkins
Jenkins Pry Plugin
I released Jenkins Pry plugin 1.1 today. This plugin adds the “pry” command to Jenkins CLI so that you can use pry to introspect a running Jenkins instance via pry. Because this builds on top of Jenkins CLI, you can remotely connect from your laptop to your Jenkins master, safe with SSH public key authentication…
The Butler’s Service: Promotion for Jenkins User Conference in Paris
We have just increased our enrollment capacity for the Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Paris, to be held on April 17th. The enthusiastic response to our first-ever Paris JUC has been terrific – and we want to get everyone there! The learning, networking and connecting that occurs within the Jenkins community at JUC is great to…
Come join us on “Selenium, Jenkins, Robots, Oh My!” tomorrow
I’ll be speaking tomorrow at San Francisco Selenium Meetup about Jenkins & Selenium — mainly recent improvements in the Selenium plugin, as well as several other new plugins relevant in the combination of Jenkins and Selenium, complete with a demo. I’ve got a couple of pet-peeves against the Selenium project, so I’m going to pitch…
Attaching files to JUnit tests
Despite the fact that it is the de-facto standard of test reports in any programming languages (perhaps except .NET), JUnit test report format has a number of problems. One is that the format isn’t explicitly defined (and I’ll discuss this in a separate post), but another problem, which I’m going to dedicate this post for,…
Jenkins User Conferences 2012
As a result of the success of the Jenkins User Conference last year in San Francisco, this year CloudBees and other sponsors are planning 4 Jenkins User Conferences around the world. Yup, that’s right — four! Making events like these successful would be a win for everyone, so I’d like to encourage you to …:…
This week in Tokyo
I’m back to Tokyo this and next week, doing all sorts of Jenkins related (and other CloudBees related) activities. First was the Developer Summit, a two-day developer conference. It covers wide range of topics from mobile to web, agile to industry designs. Yesterday I’ve done a lightening talk, trying to convince them the importance of…
Writing programs that drive Jenkins
One of the interesting discussions during SCALE 10x was about using Jenkins as a piece of a bigger software. This person was interested in using Jenkins to run some business analysis operations, and wanted to have a separate interface for business oriented people. This is actually an emerging but common theme I hear from many…
Jenkins ChromeDriver plugin
I released Jenkins ChromeDriver plugin that auto-installs chromedriver on all slaves. Here is why this is useful. ChromeDriver is needed to run WebDriver-based tests with Chrome. Unfortunately this is a native program, so in a heterogenous Jenkins, you need to make sure you have the right binary available on each of the slaves. While that’s…
Jenkins now acts as an SSH daemon
Starting in the upcoming Jenkins 1.446, Jenkins speaks the server-side of the SSH protocol. I think this is exciting, and here is why. For quite some time now, there is Jenkins CLI, which lets you access Jenkins from command line by using a custom client jar file. There are several dozen commands available (that you…
Upcoming San Francisco training
CloudBees will be hosting another training in San Francisco Bay Area in January 26, 2012, and Feburary 23rd in Tokyo. This 1-day training starts with the basics and then covers some of the advanced techniques, especially in combination with some plugins. As we deliver this training more, we gradually adjusted the material to cover more…
GitHub releases Janky
I saw an announcement that GitHub released Janky today. I initially got confused a bit because the post says Janky is a continuous integration server, which got me thinking that it’s something you’d use instead of Jenkins, but as I read more about it, it became clear that it’s something you use in conjunction with…