By Mike Jackson.

As a complement to our guide on Using continuous integration to build and test your software, we have written a walkthrough of Jenkins to highlight some of the key features of a continuous integration server. While there are many continuous integration servers available, we use Jenkins as it is popular, free and open source. The walkthrough can be performed using Linux, UNIX or Cygwin.

The walkthrough is available as part of our GitHub SoftwareSaved build_and_test_examples repository.

To get the examples, you can download the ZIP file. Or, if know how to use Git, clone the repository:

$ git clone http://github.com/softwaresaved/build_and_test_examples.git

Depending on what examples you want to use, you'll need various language-specific dependencies - see the README.md files in the language-specific sub-directories for details.

To start the walkthrough, see:

build_and_test_examples/README.md

Alternatively, you can read the README.md on GitHub.