Build Flow plugin -- hostnames of other parallel jobs?

2015-07-07 Thread Adam Seering
Hi all, I have a Build Flow that launches a bunch of test jobs in parallel. I'd like to have the jobs communicate over the network. Is there a way for one of the jobs to get the list of hostnames of the machines where other jobs are running? (Is there a tool other than Build Flow that is

Jenkins CI -- multi-node (multi-slave) single test?

2014-07-27 Thread Adam Seering
Hi all, I'm trying to write tests that use network and cluster software. There are lots of tests that I can perform on a single physical slave (loopback interface and all), but a serious end-to-end test really needs multiple physical machines. Is there any way in Jenkins to define a si

Re: Jenkins scaling as a test-reporting framework?

2014-04-13 Thread Adam Seering
Thanks Gareth! (Sorry for the delay -- new list; had my mail filters set up wrong and didn't see your reply.) >From my perspective, one of the big advantages of Jenkins is its UI; all of the tools are right there in one place. Having to jump back and forth between tools would obviously lessen

Jenkins scaling as a test-reporting framework?

2014-04-01 Thread Adam Seering
Hi all, I'm new to Jenkins; hoping someone has some thoughts or experience: I'm looking at re-working an existing system that runs a lot (order of, say, a million) of automated tests per day. (That's many fewer distinct tests but repeated many times daily as new versions are committed.)