This is a guest post by Aske Olsson Extreme feedback is an incredibly powerful way to drive quality and accelerate your developer fast feedback loop. Having eXtreme Feedback Devices (XFDs) hooked up to your Jenkins jobs gives everyone on your team instant insight into the current software state. At customer after customer we’ve seen extreme feedback devices drive significant incremental productivity gains, so about a year...

_ Guest post by Yury V. Zaytsev and Abigail Morrison. To download the PDF file of the journal article mentioned below, click here!_ As recently exemplified by several reports on this blog, automation tools such as continuous integration servers, that help to defuse the exploding complexity of software under the ever-increasing pressure to deliver, are steadily gaining well-deserved mindshare in the industry. However, it is not just...

O Jenkins, servidor de integração favorito de todos, é muito utilizado no Brasil, e agora tem uma lista de e-mails em Português além do primeiro encontro de usuários Jenkins no Brasil. Se você utiliza o Jenkins, desenvolve plug-ins, tem interesse em aprender mais sobre esta incrível ferramenta Open Source e sobre Integração Contínua, essa é a sua chance! Além de matar dúvidas sobre o Jenkins...

[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jenkins contributor Baptiste Mathus. For the non-French speakers, we’re looking for French speakers to help translate "Jenkins: The Definitive Guide" ] Si vous vous intéressez à Jenkins et que vous aimeriez pouvoir y contribuer, lisez la suite. L’année dernière, en août, nous avons attaqué la traduction en français du Jenkins Definitive Guide, écrit en bonne partie par...

Editor’s Note: The following is a write-up courtesy of Jesse Farinacci This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Jenkins User Conference in NYC. A hundred other like-minded continuous integration enthusiasts and I packed a very posh Marriott Marquis for a full day of Jenkins excitement. Famed Hudson and Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi delivered the opening address to a crowded room. I’m sure everyone knows...

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jenkins community member Tom Rini] Alternatively: How to make your parallel jobs kick one last job at the end Many of us have had occasion to think: "I could make this project build quicker if I could just run parts in parallel and then one final job to wrap it up." Well, good news! Jenkins is here to help!...

In my capacity as Build Guy at Digg, I’ve written up a blog post on our new continuous deployment/code review/pre-tested commit workflow. We’re using a combination of Hudson, Git and Gerrit, Selenium and more to make sure that every change going to Digg’s new site has been thoroughly tested. Read the whole post, with all the juicy details over on Digg’s Technology Blog!...

Over the past year Hudson has grown tremendously, both within the Java community and outside of it. Partially thanks to (Titus Brown)'s PyCon 2010 Atlanta coverage of continuous integration for Python (which we’ve covered before), Hudson has made great strides within the Python community as well. In my experience, the majority of Python developers are not using Hudson to build anything, unless they have...

A few weeks ago I passed a job listing that I had found through one of my many Google Alerts for Hudson-related queries to Andrew (abayer), following up on one of those job listings Andrew recently signed an offer to join the nice folks over at Digg to be their resident "build guy." On its own I thought "great for Andrew!" and nothing more,...

In this post I’ll show a very basic tips on how to compile an Android project using Hudson. Specifically how I use Hudson to create release versions of my apps. Debug vs Release I’m assuming that you are using Eclipse with the ADT plugin. During development you can test your app on the emulator or a device and resources like R.java and aidl files are...