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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mitesh Soni
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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

<p>In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. Jenkins is used specifically for Continuous Integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development. This book focuses on the latest and stable release of Jenkins (2.5 and later), featuring the latest features, such as Pipeline as Code, the new setup experience, and the improved UI. With the all-new Pipeline as Code feature, you will be able to build simple or advanced pipelines easily and rapidly, hence improving your teams' productivity.</p> <p>This book begins by tackling the installation of the necessary software dependencies and libraries you'll need to perform Continuous Integration for a Java application. From there, you'll integrate code repositories, applications, and build tools for the implementation of Continuous Integration.</p> <p>Finally, you will also learn how to automate your deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, along with a few advanced testing techniques.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 6. Continuous Testing - Functional and Load Testing with Jenkins

Continuous Testing is one of the most important DevOps practices available for the End to End Automation of application lifecycle management.

It not only considers automation, but it also includes aspects such as culture change and tools. It is essential to integrate automated tests into application lifecycle management early, to test quickly and in a timely manner, and to repeat the test execution process efficiently.

This chapter will give insights into how functional testing and load testing can be performed and how they can be integrated with Jenkins to adopt Continuous Testing practices as part of a DevOps culture.

This is not the whole picture of Continuous Testing, but it will certainly give a glimpse of how to use Continuous Testing DevOps practices to change the existing culture using automated tests. In this chapter, we will cover following topics:

  • Functional testing with Selenium
  • Jenkins and Selenium integration...