VTB FOUNDATION – CONTINUOUS TESTING TOOL CERTIFICATE will introduce the participants to continuous testing tool – Jenkins. Tester will learn the Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing / Continuous Deployment concepts and processes specific to Jenkins. This course will cover the necessary Components and Plugins used in Jenkins.

This certificate course is aimed at people who are testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers and software developers. This is also appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of continuous integration testing

Basic development skill, web technology and Network knowledge.

• • Continuous Integration

    Introduction to continuous integration

    Advantages of Continuous integration

    Implementation of continuous integration

    From Hudson to Jenkins

    Introduction to Jenkins

  • Getting Started with Jenkins

    Install Jenkins on a local machine

    Starting Up with Jenkins

    Jenkins Architecture and terms of Jenkins

    Overview of Jenkins UI

    Creating a Jenkins Job

    Configuring a Jenkins job

  • Plugins and its uses

    Introduction to Plugins

    Adding Plugins to Jenkins

    Commonly used plugins (Git Plugin, Parameter Plugin, HTML Publisher, Copy Artifact and Extended choice parameters)

    Configuring Jenkins to work with java, Git and Maven

    Creating a Jenkins Build and Jenkins workspace

    Configure Jenkins to check for source code changes periodically.

    Working with Maven Build Jobs

  • Setting Up Your Build Jobs and Security

    Creating a Freestyle Build Job

    Introduction to Build Triggers and to Build Steps

    Pre-and Post-Build Actions: Adding properties and properties files

    Running Your New Build Job

    Parametrized Builds

    Distributed builds

    Setting Email notification

    Enabling Security in Jenkins

    Different Levels of Authentication

    Types of Access and Administration of the Access

  • Implementing Automated Testing

    Automating Your Unit and Integration Tests

    Configuring Test Reports in Jenkins

    Displaying Test Results

    Ignoring Tests

    Automated Acceptance Test with JUnit

    Automated Performance Test with JMeter

  • Metrics to Improve Quality

    Looking for foul Code through Code Coverage

    Activating and usage of PMD Jenkins plugin

    Activating and usage of Findbugs Jenkins plugin

    Verifying HTML Validity

    Reporting with JavaNCSS

    Jenkins with Gradle script build system

    Jenkins with shell script build system

  • Distributed Jenkins Configuration

    Introduction to Distributed Jenkins Build

    Configuring Master Jenkins node

    Configuring the Jenkins slave

    Managing nodes and distributing jobs over nodes

    Binding Jobs on the master and slave setup

    Labelling the nodes to run a specific job

  • Maintain and Use Jenkins

    How to maintain Jenkins

    Do’s and Don’ts of Jenkins

    Backup of Jenkins and Migrating Jenkins from one server to another.

  • Performing Automated Deployment and Continuous Delivery

  • Deployment Overview

    Implementing Automated and Continuous Deployment

    Deploying an application to an application server

    Install and configure tomcat.

    Deployment of Simple Java web application using Tomcat.

    Jenkins Build Pipeline

    Parallel Jenkins build

    Achieve generated Artifacts

    Jenkins integrations (GitHub, slack, Custom API)

    Scaling Jenkins

  • Jenkins Pipeline

    Overview of Pipeline as code

    Overview of Pipeline Plugin

    Automated Jenkins Pipeline

Participants need to sit the VTB  Foundation exam in order to acquire the certification. The exam format is outlined below:

• 40 questions
• Multiple choice
• Closed book
• Duration : 1 Hour (1 Hour + 15 Minutes for participants whose first language is not English)  

Participants need to achieve 65% in order to pass the examination