XWiki's Continuous Build

Version 21.1 by Vincent Massol on 2019/03/03 15:55

General

XWiki has a Continuous Integration setup to ensure XWiki's code is built at all times (i.e at every code check in). This also allows developers to only build the module they want and they'll have the other XWiki module dependencies downloaded from the XWiki remote repository.

xwikibuildprocess.png

We use the following tools:

We use a technique called binary dependency build which allows to check out only the module a developer wishes to work on and he'll automatically get the latest fresh binary dependencies built by our CI tool.

Jenkins Pipelines

Main Pipeline

We have developed a Jenkins Pipeline script to build XWiki projects (can be used for core and contrib projects). It has the following features:

  • Automatically build branches when new branches are added (or Pull Requests). Automatically stop building branches when they are removed from the SCM.
  • Automatically use the right version of Java (and proper memory configuration)
  • Use Jenkins's Xvnc plugin to have a Display for functional tests
  • Use the "deploy" maven goal for "master" and "stable-*" branches only and "install" for the rest
  • Attach the screenshot of a failing XWiki Selenium test to the failed test's description
  • Check for false positives for known cases of failures not related to code + check for test flickers
  • Send mails for build failures

To use is for a project, add a Jenkinsfile with the following minimal configuration:

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// It's assumed that Jenkins has been configured to implicitly load the vars/xwikiModule.groovy library which exposes
// the "xwikiModule" global function/DSL.
// Note that the version used is the one defined in Jenkins but it can be overridden as follows:
// @Library("XWiki@<branch, tag, sha1>") _
// See https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-cps-global-lib-plugin for details.

xwikiModule {
}

For more elaborate configuration, see:

Clover Pipeline

Used to generate the global test coverage for XWiki (over all XWiki Standard repositories). See Test Coverage.

Example usage:

import org.xwiki.jenkins.Clover
node('docker') {
   new Clover().generateGlobalCoverage([
       [baseline: "20171222-1835", fail: false],
       [baseline: "20190101-2330", fail: true]
   ])
}

Docker Pipeline

Used to run functional tests using Docker in various supported configurations. See the defined Jobs.

Example usage:

import org.xwiki.jenkins.DockerTests

def branchNames = ['master', 'stable-10.11.x']
def branches = [:]

branchNames.each() {
  branches[it] = {
   def label
   if (it.contains('10.11.x')) {
      label = 'docker-outside-docker'
   } else {
      label = 'docker'
   }
    node(label) {
     new DockerTests().executeDockerSupportedTests(it)
   }
 }
}

parallel branches

Maintainer's guide

Prerequisites

  • You need to have an account on maven.xwiki.org (this is the machine hosting XWiki's remote repository) and you'll need a key setup on your account there so that you can ssh to it without having to enter username or password.
  • You need to have an administrator account on ci.xwiki.org.

Functional tests

General

  • If your project includes functional tests don't check "Run Xvnc during build" in the project configuration, we have a XVNC server always running on the machine and jenkins is aware of it (DISPLAY :1.0).

Debugging

Connect to the XVNC server

  • Establish a SSH tunnel between your computer and the server on port 5901 (ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 [email protected])
  • Use your favorite VNC client to connect to the XVNC server
    • Host : localhost
    • Display : 1
    • Password : same password as for XWiki SAS wifi access points
  • See the functional tests live.

Jenkins jamming up

Occasionally (especially under high load) Jenkins will have an SCM polling thread jam up due to JENKINS-5413. This will prevent any further builds but it can be remedied by running the following script on the master's script console.

int i = 0;
Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet().each(){ item ->
 if( item.getName().contains("SCM polling") &&
      item.getName().contains("waiting for hudson.remoting")){
     println("THREAD: " + item);
     item.interrupt();
     i++
 }
}
println("count = " + i);
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