Hudson Integration

The following topics will be covered:

Installing Hudson

Prerequisite Installations

Hudson System Configuration

Creating a Job and an Ant Task to run the Scenario

Installing Hudson

Hudson comes as a war file. Download the Hudson war file from the link

Prerequisite to run Hudson: needs Java 6 or newer run-time. An internet connection will be required if you want to be able to install and auto-update plug-ins

After you download Hudson.war, you can launch it by executing java -jar Hudson.war

Once Hudson is running, navigate to http://localhost:8080 on your browser

 

Select Hudson GIT Plugin from the featured Plugin

Click Install and Click Finish

Prerequisites Installations

Install ANT using the link, Download and install the appropriate file on your machine depending on the operating system used

Please make sure to download and install GIT on the machine where Hudson is installed. Download git from the link based on your operating system

Hudson System Configuration

On the main page, click Manage Hudson > Click Configure System

Look for global properties, create PATH variable and provide the executable paths for JAVA and APACHE

 

Look for GIT and provide the executable path of the git.exe file

Look for the GIT plugin and provide a valid username and the user email

 

Also, open a command prompt and run the following commands.

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Creating your job and creating ant task to run the scenario

Click New Job

Provide Job Name and select Build a free-style software job

Click OK

Under Source Code Management, Select Git

If hosted by Appvance, select Git and enter "https://gitlab.com/llara/ci-plugin.git " in the Repository URL box

 Locate Invoke Ant in the Build options

Enter UTP_Tests in the Targets box

Click Advanced

Enter CloudBees/build.xml or build.xml depending on where the file is located

in the Build File box (may vary if plug-in self-hosted)

Enter the following in the Properties box:

ServerURL=<URL_To_AppvanceIQ_Server_Including_Port> Path=REPOSITORY/<pathToScenarioFileIncludingScenarioNameAndFileExtension> Username=<appvanceUserName>

Password=<appvancePassword>

Click Save

Click Build Now and once the build is run successfully > Click Console Output to check the Results and the link to the Appvance IQ Results of the test run