I’ve implemented numerous test automation projects for clients, but recently I had a unique request. Jenkins plays a critical role. The “digital channel” is an industry buzzword for many companies these days. The digital channel represents a company’s content that is delivered by websites and mobile devices. Companies want the same website to work across any channel in multiple browsers and different operating systems. They...

In the fall of 2011, the very first Jenkins User Conference was held in San Francisco. Over 250 people showed up. It was, to be completely honest, a bit shocking to me - that little project I’d gotten involved with less than three years earlier was big enough, interesting enough, important enough for 250 people to travel from around the world to spend a...

Have you heard Jenkins mentioned, but haven’t really done much with it? Are you at JUC because you want to learn more? Has your company been pushing you to use Jenkins or to adapt a more agile build/test process using a Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration method? Jenkins 101 is going to give you an introduction to Jenkins and get you started in the right direction. Many...

Jenkins is a great tool for automation of all kinds of processes in the software development cycle. Falling back to the year 2008 I remember myself creating my first job and the feeling of enlightenment flowing through my veins :) Then it was just one script running on just one agent (node) and it was enough for that particular task. But years have passed,...

In continuing my infra upgrade work, this weekend I’ll be migrating JIRA to another server. This will make upgrade more manageable and testable. The service will be disrupted for a few hours. Check out our @jenkinsci on Twitter for up-to-the-minute status. Once the migration is done, the next step is to upgrade them....

I have some exciting news — The agendas have been posted for the Jenkins User Conferences (JUC) to be held at U.S. East (Alexandria, VA) and Europe (London). Take a look here to learn more about the talks, speakers and schedules. As always, there is a great lineup of presenters ready to share their Jenkins stories: Peter Vilim will be presenting “Proving a First Class User Experience...

The 2015 JUC World Tour dates are rapidly approaching. Since the community has grown so tremendously since last year, the JUC in each city will be the largest gathering of Jenkins users in that region. Kohsuke will, as always, be the opening keynote speaker at each JUC. But, with the conference going from one to two days, I am happy to announce that Gene Kim...

+ About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move to Java7 first and then to...