Jenkins
Avoid Unnecessary Builds with Jenkins, Maven and SVN
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Mon, 12/30/2013 - 12:51Sooner or later your CI server will became very busy, and your frustration will grow because of increasing wait time for each build. One thing you can do to improve the situation is to avoid running jobs when there is no need to do so.
I use Jenkins + Maven + SVN in this example, but you can use this "tricks" also when using different technologies - Gradle, Git etc.
Failed Build? Never Again!
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 08:06Oh, a failed test again! And not on your local machine but on the CI server! What to do, oh, what to do?!
Jenkins Maven - No SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 23:56Sometimes when releasing your projects on Jenkins you will encounter this Maven error message:
You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list
even if your pom.xml contains proper (x.y-SNAPSHOT) version.
Java 7, Jenkins, Ubuntu 12.10 64bit issues
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 16:21While installing Jenkins 1.486 on Ubuntu 12.10 server (64bit) with Java 7u9 I had two issues with libXrender.so.1 and libXtst.so.6 when running the first Maven build. I solved them and this post contains the solution.
Jenkins Plugins - part III - Towards Continuous Delivery
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 15:37This is a continuation of my mumblings about useful Jenkins plugins (see previous posts here and here). As we progress towards continuous delivery I learn a lot about new plugins.
Jenkins Plugins - Part II - Varia
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 22:46This is a continuation of my mumblings about useful Jenkins plugins (see the first post here: http://kaczanowscy.pl/tomek/2012-05/recommended-jenkins-plugins). As we progress towards continuous delivery I learn a lot about new plugins.
Jenkins Plugins - View Customization
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 18:26Jenkins provides a lot of useful plugins but you do not need all of them. Here is the list of plugins I use to customize the view of Jenkins.
Gather All Your Development Documentation In One Place
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 13:33Want to have always the latest documentation and database schema available? Then build it on your CI!
Why Nightly Build Is A Must-Have
Submitted by Tomek Kaczanowski on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 11:03That is pretty cool that your CI polls SCM every minute to build and tests your code instantly. However, you still need a nightly build. Read why.
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