Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 10

Add Cucumber to Your Continuous Integration Server

Problem

You want to run your Cucumber tests automatically on a shared machine every time someone on your team checks in a change.

Ingredients

• Jenkins, the open source continuous integration server^[64]

• The Git version control system^[65]

• Jenkins plug-ins for Git and Rake (installed using the admin tools)

• A post-commit hook^[66] for notifying Jenkins that your source code has changed

• cURL^[67] for interacting with Jenkins from command-line scripts

Solution

In Recipe 9, ​Run Your Features Automatically with Guard and Growl​, we saw how the Guard library can watch the files on an individual developer’s machine and rerun Cucumber tests whenever the source code changes. A continuous ...