Embracing Jenkins for Simplifed, Continuous Integration & Testing
We’ve never been busier here at Qualesce, and in our continual drive to bring the best services and approaches to our software development clients, we have trained our entire team on Jenkins and are using this powerful open-source, web-based platform for better workflow, faster time to completion, and the highest quality product at the end of the process. This is part of Qualesce’s overall committment to agile development including moving projects forward in sprints – but never at the expense of quality which is our true differentiator.
Integration has never been easy – and it has never been more important. When bringing code together “stuff happens” and as a result, bugs can surface that are not always recognized in the middle of the workstream. Jenkins changes all that.
The Jenkins Full Test Cycle delivers continuous Integration via a practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. By adopting Jenkins, we catch bugs immediately, reduce the risk of breakable software, and complete jobs faster.
It is a web-based Java tool, but a developer can create a build for any language. It comes with a mini web-server, easy to set up, and it automates most of the work tasks. A modern “test bot,” Jenkins will pick up the changed source code and trigger a build and run any tests if required, all in real-time.
Qualesce has a running start with Jenkins, integrating it with Certify to achieve Worksoft’s Lights Out Testing (WLOT). With Qualesce’s spin on Jenkins, customized plugins can be designed for each of our clients’ requirements with a feature menu including scheduling jobs, setting up multiple job executions, creating reports shared on to our clients’ dashboard, and policy based email or text notifications.
Jenkins has a growing fanclub including Facebook, LinkedIn, NASA, Netflix, Yahoo, and many more.
Benefits for our clients?
- Faster time to market through reducing of regression test cycle time
- Redirects resources to higher value tasks
- Enables more flexible use of infrastructure including off-hours testing (when bandwidth is more available)
- Easy updates including text alerts
- Lower cost, higher quality development with less stress!
You can learn more about Jenkins here, or directly from Team Q!
Andy
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