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• Acceptance test project progress report

  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....

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 27, 2014
• Jenkins Office Hour: Tutorial on writing an acceptance test

  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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 19, 2014
• Active Directory plugin improvements

  + + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 16, 2014
• Jenkins 1.532.3 LTS is released

  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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 11, 2014
• More scalable agents

  + + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 9, 2014
• Maven job type performance improvements in Maven plugin 2.2

  + I recently had an opportunity to visit a big Jenkins user on site, and one of the things they’ve told me is that building projects in the Maven job type is substantially slower than doing the same with the freestyle project type. This is partly expected, because this job type does more for you. For example, it automatically archives your...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 4, 2014
• Your Java Web Start slaves will be always clean

  + + If you have agents that connect through Java Web Start (such as agents installed as Windows services), we have a good news for you. In case of a connection loss, this type of agents has been designed to automatically attempt to reconnect to the controller. This makes sense because you want these agents to remain online all the time,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 1, 2014
• Literate builds, WTF?

  (This is a guest post by Stephen Connolly) Every developer, at some stage, will be handed a project to maintain that somebody else was responsible for. If you are lucky, the developer will not have left the organization yet and you get a brief Knowledge Transfer as the developer packs up their desk before heading on to their new job. If...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 23, 2013
• Loader.io plugin developer interview

  This is a guest post by Mike Rowan, VP R&D at SendGrid. Q: Tell us a bit about what your service and plugin do. Who is it for? What are the highlights of your plugin? A: Loader.io is a simple-to-use cloud-based load testing service. The service is designed for developers and people who need to ensure applications are performing as they should....

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 9, 2013