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Jenkins

Pipeline orchestration so regression suites run on every merge, not every release.

Pipeline orchestration so regression suites run on every merge, not every release.

CI/CD & Code

Open source

Languages

Groovy

Works with

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<What you get/>

  • Pipeline definitions in your repository, versioned with the tests they run

  • Parallel execution across agents so full regression fits a usable window

  • Failure notifications with enough context to act on, routed to where your team works

  • A tidy-up of long-red jobs nobody owns

What it is

Jenkins is the long-standing open-source automation server, and still the most common place a test suite is scheduled and triggered. Its plugin ecosystem connects it to almost anything, and self-hosting matters to clients who cannot send build data to a vendor cloud. Pipelines are defined as code in a Jenkinsfile and versioned with the project.

How PerfectQA uses Jenkins

Jenkins is where most of our client automation actually runs, usually because it is already there and already trusted. Our work is typically making test execution a first-class part of the pipeline rather than a job someone triggers manually and ignores when it goes red. We define pipelines as code in the repository so the build process is versioned alongside the tests, set up parallel execution across agents so a full regression fits inside a sensible window, and publish results in a format developers read without leaving the build page. We wire failure notifications into Slack or Mattermost with enough context to act on — which test, which environment, which commit — because a notification that only says ‘build failed’ teaches people to ignore notifications. On inherited setups the common fix is a suite that has been quietly failing for months with nobody accountable for it.

Category

CI/CD & Code

In our stack

9 years

Projects

45 delivered

<FAQs/>

Frequent questions

We already have Jenkins. What would you change?

Jenkins or GitLab CI?

Can it run our mobile and cross-browser tests?

Our test job has been red for months. Is that fixable?

Every stack is different

Tell us yours, and we’ll show you where this fits