Working with Jenkins

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	Lecture \| Hands-on Activities \| Labs
Duration	2 Days
Related Technologies	CI/CD \| Jenkins

Learning 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

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

Real-World Content

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

Expert Practitioners

Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.

Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.

Tailored Outlines

One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to training teams. That's where we come in!

“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”

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Working with Jenkins

Course Summary

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Audience

Role

Skill Level

Style

Duration

Related Technologies