Plugin Process Steps

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Plugin steps allow you to orchestrate third-party tools at the appropriate time in your component or application process. The following third-party tools can be used with CloudBees CD/RO:

  • Application Server—Examples are IIS, JBoss, and Tomcat.

  • Build—Examples are Artifactory, Nexus, MSBuild, Maven.

  • Code Analysis—Example is SonarQube.

  • Databases—Examples are DBI, Oracle, or SQLServer.

  • Defect Tracking—Example is JIRA.

  • Reporting—An example is Reports.

  • Resource Management—Examples are Chef, EC2, or Azure.

  • Scripting or Shell operations—Examples are Groovy, Python, or Ruby.

  • Source Code Analysis—Examples are ECSCM-ClearCase, ECSCM-Git, or ECSCM-Perforce.

  • System —Examples are Artifact or FileSysRepo.

  • Test —Examples are ALM or Selenium.

  • Utility—Examples are FileOps or SendEmail.

You can access these options from the Plugin Category dialog box:

Plugin Steps in a Component Process

This example shows how to define a test plugin step in a component process.

  1. In the Application Editor for the eShoppingCart application, select the "install config" process for the database.conf component in the MySQL application tier.

  2. In the Component Process Visual Editor, add a step after the "log config contents" step.

    The "New Step" appears after this step.

  3. Click + in the "New Step" to define it.

  4. Name the step "Verify configuration", use the default values, and click Next.

  5. In the Step Type dialog box, select Plugins.

  6. In the Plugins Category dialog box, select Test.

  7. In the Test dialog box, select Selenium.

  8. Select the Selenium—Test procedure.

  9. Enter the required parameters for the procedure, and click OK.

    The Component Process Visual Editor now shows this step:

Plugin Steps in an Application Process

This example shows how to add a test plugin step in an application process.

  1. In the Application Editor for the eShoppingCart application, select the Deploy application process.

    The Application Process Visual Editor opens.

  2. Add a step after the "Create Link to application" step.

  3. Click + in the "New Step" to define it.

  4. Name the step "Verify setup", use the default values, and click Next.

  5. In the Step Type dialog box, select Plugins.

  6. In the Plugins Category dialog box, select Test.

  7. In the Test dialog box, select TestNG.

  8. Select the TestNG—Run TestNG procedure.

  9. Enter the required parameters for the procedure, and click OK. The Application Process Visual Editor now shows this step: