From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Jenkins CI and Git Version Control

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Overview of configuration options

Overview of configuration options

From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Jenkins CI and Git Version Control

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Overview of configuration options

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- [Instructor] Before we actually start using Jenkins, I want to walk you through a few of the configuration settings so you know where things are. I'm clicking on Manage Jenkins on the left side here, and I'll start in Configure System. So, you'll notice right here at the top, that environment variable we typed in is recognized as the Home directory. And if I scroll down here, we'll see the number of executors. What that means is how many parallel build tasks, or script running tasks, can this instance of Jenkins perform simultaneously. And we see evidence of that right over here. You can see that these two tasks are currently idle. And let's say, for instance, I wanted to run tests on IE and Chrome and Firefox at the same time. I could bump this up to three, and as long as my CPU could handle it, I will have three parallel tasks that could be run at the same time. I'm going to go ahead and uncheck this one. And you can see since we installed the Robot Framework plugin, it…

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