An overview of the most popular CI servers and how they integrate with the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
An overview of the most popular CI servers and how they integrate with the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud.
With the advent of Agile and DevOps practices, organizations of all sizes are adopting full continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. However, as many groups have found out the hard way, you can’t achieve true CI/CD without automated testing. This is because testing has always been the biggest bottleneck in the pipeline, and while development velocity has increased, teams who are still doing manual testing are still experiencing slow release cycles.
So while QA and development teams work together to build reliable and scalable test automation, it is also crucial that the systems these teams use for testing are fully integrated into their CI server. This article provides an overview of the most popular CI servers in the market, and how they integrate with the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud.
Jenkins is by far the most popular CI tool on the market today. A free and open source tool, it has a strong community following and enjoys broad adoption across companies of all sizes. To help you easily integrate your test execution into your Jenkins pipeline, Sauce Labs developed the Sauce Jenkins Plugin. While it isn’t necessary to integrate the two systems via this plugin (you could always build this yourself), there
Atlassian Bamboo Server helps your team with continuous integration, deployment
VSTS is a cloud service for collaborating on code development and enables continuous delivery of applications. It provides a rich set of features, including Git repositories for source control,