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 …

I use Vagrant together with VirtualBox on an Ubuntu based Linux system. Because my internal SSD drive isn't so large, I outsource the location of VirtualBox's VMs to an external HDD drive with a NTFS partition. Additionally, I set Vagrant's environment variables VAGRANT_DOTFILE_PATH and VAGRANT_HOME so, that the …

Salt has the option to manage servers agentlessly. Agentless means that the targets don't need a agent process. The master orchestrates the target system over SSH. Therefor it exists an own command called _salt-shh. _ The following sections explain how to install Salt SSH on a CentOs 5.5 and how to configure minimally …

When you follow the instruction step in the installation guide for Centos 5.5, the package manager automatically installs ZeroMQ in version 2.2. This ZeroMQ version makes some troubles. Therefore, Salt recommends using ZeroMQ in version >= 3.2. There is no ZeroMQ package for this version available in the official …

From a certain point on, an application has to be configurable. Spring Framework has a nice auxiliary tool for this issue since the first version 0.9 , the class PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and since Spring Framework 3.1 the class PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. When you start a Google search for …

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, Returns, …

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. …