This post is part 1 of a series: Part 1: Website automation with Selenium and JMeter Part 2: Selenium scripting, Installation One of our customers asked us to troubleshoot their web application: “out of memory” errors were causing page loads to fail. To understand and isolate the problem we needed a way to reproduce it, …
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This is the final post, part 2 of a series: Part 1: Website automation with Selenium and JMeter Part 2: Selenium scripting, Installation In this post I show how to script Selenium for handling asynchronous browser behaviour, and how to install the tools.
My Jenkins job was set to trigger a build automatically from a simple GitHub webhook, but the job didn’t build when code changes were pushed to GitHub. Was the problem in Jenkins, GitHub, or something else? I investigated using Jenkins log recorders.
This is the final post, part 3 of a series: Part 1: Overview and Deploy Azure Resources Part 2: Deploy Jenkins Operations Center, Master and Shared Agent Part 3: The Jenkinsfile, tweaks and tips In this post I describe the Jenkinsfile that defines the build pipeline, a little troubleshooting and tweaking, and wrap up the series.
This post is part 2 of a series: Part 1: Overview and Deploy Azure Resources Part 2: Deploy Jenkins Operations Center, Master and Shared Agent Part 3: The Jenkinsfile, tweaks and tips In this post I deploy the Jenkins distributed builds model: a Jenkins client master will delegate build jobs to one or more Jenkins agents. In addition, …
I’ve been trying out Enterprise Jenkins on Azure. The inspiration was a webinar, Achieving Continuous Delivery on Microsoft Azure, about the “four quadrants of DevOps maturity”, and how to address the needs of different teams in the delivery pipeline using tools from Azure and Enterprise Jenkins. The webinar includes a demo of a cloud-based Jenkins Pipeline job, and the source code is freely …
Long, long ago when I was a student, I knew how to recognise a UNIX system. Sorry: overused in-joke. I’ve been brushing up on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 on Azure) while doing some ops stuff involving a machine which, on startup, automatically runs a background process as a specific user. A few minutes of research revealed several ways …
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What you need to know Manually build a Jenkins Pipeline job at least once, if you’ve set up the job to build automatically when a change is pushed to an SCM like Git. I scratched my head for some time about this, checking logs and double-checking configurations before I figured out why. The short answer: RTFM. The long answer …
