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Recently my team has been running a large Jenkins instance and multiple agents in AWS, with hundreds of pipelines. In this post I'll explain how we switched to an on-demand, serverless Jenkins environment on AWS Fargate, whilst still retaining the ability to build Docker images...

Monkey_Office_1A We recently introduced acceptance test driven development (ATDD) at a client. The idea was for the product owners, developers, and testers to work as a team to come up with the acceptance criteria for user stories before development begins. We adopted this approach as an attempt to increase a shared understanding of user stories, as well as a shared agreement on the definition of 'done'. As we introduced more functionality to the application, it became evident that more and more effort had to be put into regression testing prior to a software release. The application has to be supported on mobile (iOS and Android) and desktop (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE8 and above). Our team of 2 to 3 testers would spend up to 3 days testing for regressions! In an attempt to reduce the need for talented testers to carry out monkey work, the team began to push for a focus on automated browser-level testing. In this post I will demonstrate the acceptance testing framework we used and describe how the test suite can be tied to a Jenkins build (with a beautiful results page!).
Introduction There have been many good examples of using Hudson for cross-platform builds and automatic execution of tests, but Hudson also provides a great environment for empowering non-developers to execute particular tests whenever they want. We have found this to be particularly the case when automating data migration tests. This article will discuss the what automatic data migration testing is, and how Hudson can make it easier. Whilst it refers to Hudson, the same techniques could also be used with Jenkins.