Python installations

Python installations now accept a path to a Python binary in the Home or executable fields. This is useful for multiple system installations in /usr on Unix.

Custom working directory

ShiningPanda creates files in JENKINS_HOME/shiningpanda, notably virtualenvs for various builders. This option let you change this working directory. You can for instance use ...

Platform

This post assumes a Debian GNU/Linux environment, but you should not have much trouble adapting it to another Linux distribution. All requirements are listed in our initial blog post: Selenium, Python and Jenkins on Debian - 1/3.

Global Configuration

First ensure that the latest version of the ShiningPanda Plugin, Xvnc Plugin, Violations Plugin and Cobertura Plugin are installed (check on Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Installed page). If not ...

Sample project

Let's use the same poll application from the Django tutorial.

The source code can be found on the django14-selenose branch of this repository. Clone it with:

$ git clone -b django14-selenose https://github.com/shiningpanda/djangotutorial-selenium.git

Then ...

Platform

This post assumes a Debian GNU/Linux environment, but you should not have much trouble adapting it to another Linux distribution. All requirements are listed in our initial blog post: Selenium, Python and Jenkins on Debian - 1/3.

Global Configuration

First ensure that the latest version of the ShiningPanda Plugin, Xvnc Plugin, Violations Plugin and Cobertura Plugin are installed (check on Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > Installed page). If not ...

Integration

It's now time to introduce Jenkins and see how can we put our sample project in integration.

First of all, Jenkins needs some parseable test results. In Java, the maven-surefire-plugin handles this by default. In Python, nose will generate them for us.

Modify setuptools/pom.xml to call python setup.py nosetests instead of python setup.py test on test phase:

 1 <execution>
 2   <id>setuptools test ...