Personally I'd do as you say in terms of running the tests but would use one job for both. I don't see a benefit in having two as you'd get the same result using stable/unstable/failed I think?
Richard. On Friday, August 23, 2013, Eric Pyle wrote: > Hi Mateusz, > > Yes, I would run the Perl scripts from a "execute shell" step. However, I > would recommend separating the software build and the running of the tests > into two separate jobs. If the build job does not succeed for some reason, > there is no need to run the tests, and this will give you a more detailed > view of the software status. That is, you'll know (for example) that it > compiles but has test failures. > > For summarizing the test results, it will be easiest if you can get the > results in XUnit format, e.g. by using a JUnit-like test framework. Here > are links to several. With the output in XUnit format you can use plugins > to visualize and track the test results. > > http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/502644/how-can-i-do-** > unit-testing-in-perl<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502644/how-can-i-do-unit-testing-in-perl> > http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/1369108/is-there-a-**junit-for-perl<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369108/is-there-a-junit-for-perl> > http://damien.krotkine.com/**2009/11/25/perl-tests-in-** > hudson-via-junit.html<http://damien.krotkine.com/2009/11/25/perl-tests-in-hudson-via-junit.html> > http://www.perlmonks.org/?**node_id=537441<http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=537441> > > -Eric > > On 8/21/2013 5:01 AM, pm wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm a trainee at a testers team, which is going to use Jenkins to do >> automated testing of the products of our company. The tests are written in >> Perl. Is it a good practice to run these by executing shell as a >> post-build >> action? Or are there any plugins which would be useful to do that? I would >> also like to know what could be useful to aggregate the test results. >> I'm a completely newbee to Jenkins and the testing business, and the big >> quantity of plugins and possibilities is a little bit overwhelming to me. >> Thank you in advance for the answers. >> Greetings from Cracow. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://jenkins-ci.361315.n4.** >> nabble.com/Using-Jenkins-to-**automated-testing-tp4676807.**html<http://jenkins-ci.361315.n4.nabble.com/Using-Jenkins-to-automated-testing-tp4676807.html> >> Sent from the Jenkins users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
