High level Benefits and Things to consider when considering to use Jenkins

All, here is a summary of things to consider when deciding to use Jenkins as your continuous Integration tool.

Describe the benefits of using jenkins for test automation

Benefits, Schedule tests to run at a specific times, Display test results trends, display summary of test results, display the details of test failures, build time trends, automatically trigger the test results mails.

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3. Select free style projects and provide name

4. Select this project is parametered

5. Add parameter and lets add a string parameter and boolean parameter

6. Define value and name

Save settings and back to dashboard page of jenkins

Click on build with parameter

Once done jenkins will promt you to provide values related to the paramter you define.

Click on Build

Check logs -> select console output