July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
401 pages
11h 24m
English
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Preface
Audience
This book is aimed at relatively technical readers, though no prior experience with Continuous Integration is assumed. You may be new to Continuous Integration, and would like to learn about the benefits it can bring to your development team. Or, you might be using Jenkins or Hudson already, and want to discover how you can take your Continuous Integration infrastructure further.
Much of this book discusses Jenkins in the context of Java or JVM-related projects. Nevertheless, even if you are using another technology stack, this book should give you a good grounding in Continuous Integration with Jenkins. We discuss how to build projects using several non-Java technologies, including Grails, Ruby on Rails and .NET. In addition, many topics, such as general configuration, notification, distributed builds and security are applicable no matter what language you are using.
Book Layout
Continuous Integration is like a lot of things: the more you put in, the more value you will get out. While even a basic Continuous Integration setup will produce positive improvements in your team process, there are significant advantages to gradually assimilating and implementing some of the more advanced techniques as well. To this end, this book is organized as a progressive trek into the world of Continuous Integration with Jenkins, going from simple to more advanced. In the first chapter, we start off with a sweeping overview of what Jenkins is all about, in the form of a high-level guided ...
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