The Project Build and Release Automation 

• The components of build system
• The build automation process
• Overview on Apache Maven and Ant and Gradle
• Unit and Integration testing 
• Overview on GIT SCM
• Product Delivery pipeline  
• Code integration 

What is Continuous Integration?   

• Iintroduction to Continuous Integration 
• • What Is CI?
  • Why CI?
  • CI Philosophy
  • Advantages of CI in Software Development
• How to Implement CI 
• • Setting Up a CI Environment
  • CI Tools
  • Automated Builds
  • Automated Tests
  • Code Repository
  • Continuous Integration builds 
  • Integration of Automated Testing With CI
  • Continuous Delivery mechanism
  • Continuous Improvement with Feedback Loop and Improvement Cycle

The CI process practices

• What you need for CI
• General Working Procedure
• Team involvement and notifications 
• Commit Code Frequently
• Don’t Commit Broken Code
• Run private Builds First
• Fix Broken Builds immediately
• Avoid Getting Broken Builds
• Write Automated Developer tests
• All Tests Must Pass
• Automate as Much as Possible
• Shared Ownership
• Build automation 

The Jenkins CI Server

• Jenkins Architecture and Features
• Jenkins installation and configuration  
• Jenkins plug-ins configuration
• • Security plug-ins
  • Maven Plug-in
  • Git Plug-in
  • Cobertura
  • Jacoco
  • MS Build
  • Pipeline plug-in
• Assign user roles for admin and monitoring.
• • Create Freestyle Build job
  • The project build configuration 
  • Jenkins GIT SCM integration
  • Configure the Trigger for build process 
  • Configure pre-build and post-build activities with ant and other tools
  • Execute the JUnit test cases/suites
  • Integrate with code quality tools Sonar, Find bugs, PMD, Check Style etc.
  • Generate test reports.
  • Monitor the build jobs
  • Build console monitoring
  • Jenkins Groovy API Overview
  • Using Groovy console for monitoring and update
  • Use groovy scripts

Maven Job

• Maven job with application Dependencies
• Working with Local/Remote Repository 
• Maven Central Repository usage
• Build Java project with Maven
• Configure pre and post build activities
• Deploy the artifacts
• Build and monitor the job
• Build job dependencies
• Upstream and downstream triggers
• The effects of build failures
• Define a pipeline of jobs

High Level Pipeline Job

• The pipeline plug-in update
• Generate configuration
• Manage repository
• Manage build activities
• Build artifacts
• Create delivery pipeline from development job
• Define series of build jobs
• The code to manage the infrastructure 
• Execution and monitoring 

Parameterized Jobs

• Configure build with external inputs
• Create a parameterized job
• Configure external parameters String, Boolean, Choice, file, job name etc.
• Execute another build job
• Read the parameters during build as environment values 
• Apache ant script
• Groovy Console
• Use plug-in for parameterized customization
• The execution of parameterized job

Groovy in Jenkins

• Role of groovy in Jenkins 
• Groovy language basics  
• The Groovy Interpreter and architecture 
• Classes and Scripts 
• Execute groovy scripts 
• Java Integration
• Groovy Applications
• Database Operations 
• Operator overloading
• Execute groovy scripts in Jenkins Groovy console
• Jenkins Groovy plug-in
• Execute groovy scripts as build activity  

Jenkins Advanced

• Configure Non-Java builds such as C++ / .net applications
• Jenkins plug-ins architecture
• Write your own plug-in 
• Distributed Builds on Master-Slave nodes 
• Restrict the job execution on a node
• High availability / Clustering overview