With the Mozmill CI project we aim to get a fully automated testing cycle implemented for testing Firefox in the Mozilla QA compartment. Therefore the Mozilla Pulse message broker and Jenkins are used.

Before you can start the system the following commands have to be performed:

git clone git://github.com/whimboo/mozmill-ci.git
cd mozmill-ci
./setup/configure.sh

The two components (Pulse consumer and Jenkins master) have to be started separately in two different terminals. As first step we have to setup the Jenkins master:

./start.sh

Once Jenkins has been fully started, open http://localhost:8080/ via your web browser. Open the +admin view and execute all of the listed jobs once. Also update the Jenkins URL of the master to a public accessible IP or DNS name, so that slave nodes can successfully connect.

Now you can start the Pulse consumer which pushes requests for jobs through the Jenkins API to the master:

source jenkins-env/bin/activate
./pulse.py config/example_daily.cfg

Please keep in mind that you should create your own configuration file before you start the consumer and setup the wanted builds appropriately.

To add Jenkins slaves to your master you have to create new nodes. You can use one of the example nodes (Windows XP and Ubuntu) as a template. Once done the nodes have to be connected to the master. Therefore Java has to be installed on the node first.

Windows:

Go to www.java.com/download/ and install the latest Java JRE

Linux (Ubuntu):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

After Java has been installed open the appropriate node within Jenkins from the nodes web browser like:

http://IP:8080/computer/windows_xp_32_01/

Now click the Launch button and the node should automatically connect to the master. It will be used once a job for this type of platform has been requested by the Pulse consumer.

If you want that the master node also executes jobs you will have to update its labels and add/modify the appropriate platforms, e.g. 'master mac 10.7 64bit' for MacOS X 10.7.