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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook

You're reading from   Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook Over 90 recipes to produce great results using pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297943
Length 438 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alan Mark Berg Alan Mark Berg
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Mitesh Soni Mitesh Soni
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Jenkins FREE CHAPTER 2. Management and Monitoring of Jenkins 3. Managing Security 4. Improving Code Quality 5. Building Applications in Jenkins 6. Continuous Delivery 7. Continuous Testing 8. Orchestration 9. Jenkins UI Customization 10. Processes that Improve Quality

Avoiding groupthink

It is easy to be perfect on paper, defining the importance of a solid set of Javadocs and unit tests. However, the real world on its best days is chaotic. Project momentum, motivated by the need to deliver, is an elusive force to push back against.

Related to project momentum is the potential of groupthink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink) by the project team or resource owners. If the team has the wrong collective attitude, as a quality assurance professional it is much harder to inject hard-learned realism. Quality assurance is not only about finding and capturing defects as early as possible, it is also about injecting objective criteria for success or failure into the different phases of a project's cycle.

Consider adding measurable criteria into the Jenkins build. Obviously, if the code fails to compile, then the product should not go to acceptance...

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