DevOps Classroom Series – 22/Dec/2019 – Maven With Jenkins

Testing Types

• Unit Testing:
  • Testing smaller unit of developments
  • Test Harness tools:
    • JUNIT
    • MSTest
    • pytest
• Automated System Testing:
  • web Based Applications:
    • Selenium
    • Karate
    • QTP
  • API Based Applications
    • Soap UI
    • Postman
  • Mobile Apps:
    • Appium
  • Performance Testing
    • JMeter
    • Load Runner

What is Measured From Tests

• Pass Rate
• Coverage

Integrating Maven tests with Jenkins

• To configure publishing of junit test results to jenkins
• ensure your maven goal has test execution
• Navigate to post-build Actions and Select as shown below
• Select xml files in surefire-reports folder in target

Archiving the Artifcat (Displaying the package built)

• In post build actions, select the section ‘archive the artifact’ and give the artifacts location (for eg: target/*.jar)

Post Build Actions:

• Activities that are performed after build is completed
• Most commonly post builds are
  • Show Test Results
  • Show the Package
  • Call other Jenkins Project to start building
  • Send Emails to the team

Jenkins Plugins

• Plugin is extra functionality into Jenkins
• Plugins can be installed into Jenkins. This installation can be from
  • Online
    • Plugins get downloaded from internet
  • Offline
    • Upload plugin to Jenkins
    • Plugin has two popular formats (hpi, jpi)

Day Builds

• Day builds basic intention is
  • to give feedback of code quality of the commit(s) done by one (or more) developers for shorter period of time during the day.
  • Have to finish quickly

Night Builds

• Night Builds basic intention is
  • to give feedback of the product quality for the collective work done by developers during past day
  • Execute extensive tests (unit, System, Performance)
  • Time is no bar
  • Night Builds are used by system testers to execute the Functional test
  • Night Builds qualify for release