Notifications
Notification forms an important part of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process. Breaking tasks into multiple Jenkins jobs and having e-mail notifications for each is the best way to act quickly.
We have already seen e-mail notifications in the previous chapters. However, from the past few years, defect tracking tools and team collaboration tools are gaining momentum, for example, Asana, Slack, Trello, and HipChat.
In this section, let's see how to configure Jenkins with HipChat to get continuous notifications.
Installing HipChat
Perform the following steps to install HipChat:
From the Atlassian HipChat website, create a new account:
If your organization already has a team, you may click on the Join an existing team button.
If that is not the case, then click on the Create a new team button:
Provide a name for your team:
Skip this step if you don't want to invite people:
This is what your HipChat dashboard page looks like:
Creating a room or discussion forum
Perform...