Working with Jenkins Course | DevelopIntelligence

Course Summary

The Working with Jenkins training course is designed to demonstrate how to effectively configure and use Jenkins to increase code quality through continuous builds, code coverage and quality tools, and testing suites.

The course starts off with an introduction to continuous integration and an overview of Jenkins. Next, it analyzes the different levels of testing, job creation, and developer configuration basics. The course concludes with an overview of both code coverage and code quality, comprehensive Jenkins testing, notifications, and advanced build configuration.

Purpose

Learn how to enable continuous integration with Jenkins.

Audience

Developers looking to adopt Jenkins.

Role

DevOps Engineer - Q/A - Software Developer - Technical Manager - Web Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

2 Days

Related Technologies

CI/CD

Jenkins

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe Continuous Integration
Compare Jenkins to other CI servers
Configure Jenkins to support jobs and builds
Administer and measure code quality
Create alerting/notifications for builds

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
Expert Practitioners

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What You'll Learn

In the Working with Jenkins training course, you'll learn:

Introduction to Continuous Integration
- What is CI?
- How does CI help improve software quality?
- Build automation basics
- Common types of builds
- Common CI environments
- Expected outcomes when moving to CI
What is Jenkins?
- History
- Features
- Compare CI servers: Jenkins, Hudson, TFS
- Overview of Jenkins architecture
- Understand the Jenkins build infrastructure
Levels of Testing
- Unit
- Integration
- Acceptance/Functional
- Performance tests
Creating a Job
- Freestyle software projects
- Maven project
- Monitor an external job
- Multi-configuration jobs
Developer Configuration Basics
- Set up post-build actions
- Set up test reporting
Code Coverage
- What is code coverage?
- Why is code coverage important?
- Measure code coverage
- Configure NCover (for C#)
- Configure Cobertura (for Java)
Code Quality
- Code Quality and CI
- Measure and enforce code quality
- FXCop (for C#)
- Style Cop (for C#)
- Checkstyle (for Java)
- PMD (for Java)
- FindBugs (for Java)
- Integrate Sonar (for Java)
Comprehensive testing with Jenkins
- Acceptance tests
- Performance tests
- Tuning tests
Setting up Notifications
- Email
- RSS
- Instant Messaging
- Mobile/SMS
Advanced Build Configuration
- Parameterized builds and triggers
- Database builds
- Controller/Agent distributed builds
- Joins
- Parallel build
- Build pipelines
Other Topics
- Source control best practices
- Package management
Q/A