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• Browser-testing with Sauce OnDemand and Pipeline

  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...

  

  Liam Newman August 29, 2016
• GSoC: External Workspace Manager for Pipeline is released

  This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across...

  Alexandru Somai August 22, 2016
• Continuous Security for Rails apps with Pipeline and Brakeman

  This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. When the Ruby on Rails framework debuted it changed the industry in two noteworthy ways: it created a trend of opinionated web application frameworks (Django, Play, Grails) and it also strongly encouraged thousands of developers...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 10, 2016
• GSoC: External Workspace Manager for Pipeline. Beta release is available

  This blog post is a continuation of the External Workspace Manager Plugin related posts, starting with the introductory blog post, and followed by the alpha version release announcement. As the title suggests, the beta version of the External Workspace Manager Plugin was launched! This means that it’s available only in the Experimental Plugins Update Center. Take care when installing plugins from the Experimental Update Center, since...

  Alexandru Somai August 9, 2016
• Don't install software, define your environment with Docker and Pipeline

  This is a guest post by Michael Neale, long time open source developer and contributor to the Blue Ocean project. If you are running parts of your pipeline on Linux, possibly the easiest way to get a clean reusable environment is to use: CloudBees Docker Pipeline plugin. In this short post I wanted to show how you can avoid installing stuff on the agents, and have per...

  

  Michael Neale August 8, 2016
• Blue Ocean July development update

  The team have been hard at work moving the needle forward on the Blue Ocean 1.0 features. Many of the features we have been working on have come a long way in the past few months but here’s a few highlights: Goodbye page refreshes, Hello Real Time updates! Building upon Tom's great work on Server Sent Events (SSE) both Cliff and Tom worked on making the all the screens...

  James Dumay July 19, 2016
• Sending Notifications in Pipeline

  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. ...

  

  Liam Newman July 18, 2016
• Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline

  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...

  

  Liam Newman July 1, 2016
• GSoC: External Workspace Manager Plugin alpha version

  Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple...

  Alexandru Somai June 30, 2016