Since SonarQube 4.2. the test report isn't generated by the Sonar Maven Plugin during a Maven build (see SonarQube's blog post) . Therefore, the test report has to be generated by another plugin before Sonar Maven Plugin collects the information for the SonarQube server. Here, Jacoco Maven Plugin can help. It has the …

Guest Contribution by Markus Jenderek "Quality exists when the price is long forgotten", said Mr Royce to Mr Rolls with his petrol smeared face or Mr Rolls to Mr Royce - but anyway. The question is about which price is he talking about? Money, yes of course! But what about Pain, Features, Competition, Time, …

Introduction Jenkins Subversion Plugin changes its credential management. Before version 2.2 you had to set your Subversion credential globally depend on domain name. In version 2.2 it's changed. The credential management is still central but now you have to configure in every job which credential the job has to use …

When your Jenkins server runs on for a while, your hard disk usage grows up because the default setting of each job is that every job build and build artifact obtained from this are stored in a build history. Limiting this build history can save hard disk usage. Each job has a setting option called Discard Old Builds. …

In my last post I showed how to rename the host name for Subversion in all jobs with one script. In this post I will show you how to set the repository browser in all jobs with one script. This script is based on the script from my last post. 1def newRepositoryBrowserRootUrl = new …

The host name of a Subversion instance is renamed and now many Jenkins jobs have to be adjusted. One possibility is to change every job by hand. But this approach is very time-consuming and error-prone. A better possibility is to have a script based approach, that rename the Subversion host name of all jobs in one go. …

A new version of this blog post is published under the title "Generate P2 Repository From Maven Artifacts in 2017" Motivation If you use Maven Tycho to build your Eclipse RCP application, you can use Maven dependencies as you know it from Maven (for more information see [1]). I notice that Tycho takes many …

In my last post of this series, I described how to solve the dependency problem. In this post, I will describe how to build Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse Feature with Maven Tycho and which problems I have. POM Definition The procedure for both Eclipse artifacts is similar. In both, you have to insert a pom.xml and fill it …

This post series should not be a tutorial for Maven Tycho. You can find many tutorials on the web (see for example [2] and [3]). This post series should be a field report about the problems during the introduction of Maven Tycho. Why Maven Tycho? One requirement is that we can use Maven artifacts. So it seems obvious …

I installed Nexus on Linux according to the step-by-step instruction of Sonatype. Everything looked fine during the installation. To find out, whether the installation was successful, I tried to go to the welcome page of my nexus installation. I got an error message. I looked in the log file of Nexus and found …