+ Over the past 30 days or so, https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/[the acceptance test project] has made a great progress. + + + This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/blob/master/docs/CONTROLLER.md[all sorts of different ways], and can interact with https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/blob/master/docs/FIXTURES.md[complex real fixtures]. These...

+ image:https://wiki.jenkins.io/download/attachments/57181939/hangout.png?version=1&modificationDate=1361998218000[image,width=200] + + + + This week I'm going to do an office hour on how to write an acceptance test in https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness[Jenkins acceptance test harness]. The event is on https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Jenkins+Office+Hours&iso=20140519T11&p1=283&ah=1[Wednesday 11am PT]. + + + This new Selenium-based test harness is full of page objects and other abstractions that let you write blackbox integration tests on Jenkins and its plugins, as well as how they behave under...

+ As the Jenkins project grows, https://jenkins-ci.org/content/come-join-infra-team[the need for our infrastructure has been growing]. https://ci.jenkins.io/[Our Jenkins-on-Jenkins] needs more build agents, we need more servers to run our infrastructure services. + + + And it was https://jenkins-ci.org/content/big-thanks-rackspace[once again] Rackspace who stepped up to the plate; they have kindly donated us more https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/[cloud servers]. I also use Rackspace for one of my personal servers, and when I went...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Allen_(author)[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/The_Hidden_Agenda_3D.png/181px-The_Hidden_Agenda_3D.png[image] + ] + + + Agenda is posted for Jenkins User Conference https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston[Boston] and https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin[Berlin]. + + + For Boston, my favorite would be the https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston/sessions#JesseGlick[workflow in Jenkins] talk that will cover the new workflow job type Jesse and I are working on. As of this writing it is still very much a work in progress, but that talk is our way of putting a stake...

+ https://puppetlabs.com/[image:https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZN4l.jpg[image,width=100]] + + We are looking for volunteers to join the small infra team here at the Jenkins project. We are the butlers of the butler that get Mr.Jenkins going. + + + We've been https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins-infra[managing our servers through puppet], and have been slowly folding pieces one at a time to puppet, but there's still a lot of snowflake services that need proper operationalization. + + + So...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Active-directory.svg/170px-Active-directory.svg.png[image] + ] + + + + One of the few plugins that I still personally maintain is https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Active+Directory+plugin[Active Directory plugin]. In the past few months, I've been making steady improvements in this plugin, thanks to various inputs and bug reports given to me from the ClodBees customers. + + + One of the recent fixes was to get https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-9258[the "remember me" feature] finally working for Active Directory....

+ image:https://clsdf.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tumblr_lkzltkxTmF1qersu1.gif[image] + + + One of the new efforts in Jenkins this year is https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness[the acceptance test harness] for Jenkins. + + + We will be doing the Jenkins office hours next week to go over this and sync up and coordinate between people in the community that are trying to work on this. + + + It'll be *April 23rd 11am PT* (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Jenkins+Governance+Meeting&iso=20140423T11&p1=224&ah=1&sort=1[see what this time is...

+ The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/[the usual location]. Changelog is https://jenkins-ci.org/changelog-stable[here]. + + + Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/LTS+Release+Line[switch to the train model], where we commit to dates and get whatever we can ship by that date. + + + You can see https://jenkins-ci.org/content/event-calendar[the scheduled dates in our event...

+ InfoQ has been https://www.infoq.com/research/ci-server[running a CI server survey] for more than a month now, and here is the current result: + + + https://www.infoq.com/research/ci-server[ + image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/infoq.preview.png[image] + ] + + + + Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I'd encourage you to look around a...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nio[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Nikko_Toshogu_Nio_M3043.jpg/160px-Nikko_Toshogu_Nio_M3043.jpg[image] + ] + Nio + + + + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_I/O[NIO]-based https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-LaunchslaveagentviaJavaWebStart[Java Web Start (JNLP) agent handling] is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP agents more efficiently. A connected JNLP agent used to occupy one thread on the controller, but now it occupies none. Combined with the earlier change that eliminated threads from idle executors, now you can connect thousands of agents. + ...