Testing with Jenkins

Jenkins provides many out-of-the-box functionalities and plugins for testing. The site https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/xUnit+Plugin provides the plugins:

A list of available testing plugins is shown as follows:

• JUnit itself

• AUnit

• MSTest (imported from MSTest Plugin)

• NUnit (imported from NUnit Plugin)

• UnitTest++

• Boost Test Library

• PHPUnit

• Free Pascal Unit

• CppUnit

• MbUnit

• Google test

• EmbUnit

• gtester/glib

• QTestLib

Setting up Unit Testing

Let's perform the following steps to set up unit testing:

1. Pick up the project we have set up:

   

2. Choose build option:

   

3. Choose an Advanced option:

   

4. Enter the location of build.xml:

   

5. Select the option of post-build option and choose Publish JUnit test result report:

   

6. In the test reports.xml, enter the reports created a folder in our project so that Jenkins picks the resulting XML files produced by running of the JUnit test cases:

   

We can select the build and drill-down to the test results.

Automated Test Suite

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