Over the past 30 days or so, the acceptance test project has made a great progress. This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in all sorts of different ways, and can interact with complex real fixtures. These tests can be...

This week I’m going to do an office hour on how to write an acceptance test in Jenkins acceptance test harness. The event is on Wednesday 11am PT. This new Selenium-based test harness is full of page objects and other abstractions that let you write blackbox integration tests on Jenkins and its plugins, as well as how they behave under various environments. Unlike our regular office...

As the Jenkins project grows, the need for our infrastructure has been growing. Our Jenkins-on-Jenkins needs more build agents, we need more servers to run our infrastructure services. And it was once again Rackspace who stepped up to the plate; they have kindly donated us more cloud servers. I also use Rackspace for one of my personal servers, and when I went back to their...

+ Agenda is posted for Jenkins User Conference Boston and Berlin. For Boston, my favorite would be the workflow in Jenkins talk that will cover the new workflow job type Jesse and I are working on. As of this writing it is still very much a work in progress, but that talk is our way of putting a stake on the ground that we WILL have...

We are looking for volunteers to join the small infra team here at the Jenkins project. We are the butlers of the butler that get Mr.Jenkins going. We’ve been managing our servers through puppet, and have been slowly folding pieces one at a time to puppet, but there’s still a lot of snowflake services that need proper operationalization. So to fix them up, PuppetLabs folks generously...

+ One of the few plugins that I still personally maintain is Active Directory plugin. In the past few months, I’ve been making steady improvements in this plugin, thanks to various inputs and bug reports given to me from the ClodBees customers. One of the recent fixes was to get the "remember me" feature finally working for Active Directory. This requires a relatively new Jenkins 1.556,...

One of the new efforts in Jenkins this year is the acceptance test harness for Jenkins. We will be doing the Jenkins office hours next week to go over this and sync up and coordinate between people in the community that are trying to work on this. It’ll be April 23rd 11am PT (see what this time is in your time zone) on Google Hangout at...

The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from the usual location. Changelog is here. Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will switch to the train model, where we commit to dates and get whatever we can ship by that date. You can see the scheduled dates in our event calendar. Backporting window for 1.554.1 is...

InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: + Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I’d encourage you to look around a bit more. You can still vote from their...

+ Nio NIO-based Java Web Start (JNLP) agent handling is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP agents more efficiently. A connected JNLP agent used to occupy one thread on the controller, but now it occupies none. Combined with the earlier change that eliminated threads from idle executors, now you can connect thousands of agents. All you have to do is...