This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. One of the great features of Jenkins is how far it can scale, not only from a software perspective, but also from an organizational one. From a single Jenkins controller with one or two agents to a multiple controller with thousands of agents, from a team of only a few people to a whole company with multiple...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. As someone who has managed Jenkins for years and manually managed jobs, I think pipeline is fantastic. I spent much of the conference manning the Ask the Experts desk of the "Open Source Hub" and was glad to find I was not alone in that sentiment. The questions were not "Why should I use Pipeline?", but "How do...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. That’s a Wrap! Any way you look at it, last week’s Jenkins World Conference 2016 was a huge success. In 2011, a few hundred users gathered in San Francisco for the first "Jenkins User Conference". Over successive years, this grew into several yearly regional Jenkins user conferences. This year, over 1,300 people came from around the world to...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Testing web applications across multiple browsers on different platforms can be challenging even for smaller applications. With Jenkins and the Sauce OnDemand Plugin, you can wrangle that complexity by defining your Pipeline as Code. Pipeline ♥ UI Testing, Too I recently started looking for a way to do browser UI testing for an open-source JavaScript project to which I...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Rather than sitting and watching Jenkins for job status, I want Jenkins to send notifications when events occur. There are Jenkins plugins for Slack, HipChat, or even email among others. Note: Something is happening! I think we can all agree getting notified when events occur is preferable to having to constantly monitor them just in case. I’m going to continue...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Most projects need more that just JUnit result reporting. Rather than writing a custom plugin for each type of report, we can use the HTML Publisher Plugin. Let’s Make This Quick I’ve found a Ruby project, hermann, I’d like to build using Jenkins Pipeline. I’d also like to have the code coverage results published with each build job. ...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to speed up your pipeline by using the Parallel Test Executor Plugin. So much to do, so little time…​ In my career, I’ve helped many teams move to continuous integration and delivery. One problem we always encounter is how to run all the tests needed to ensure high-quality changes while still...