How do I make a Jenkins job start after multiple simultaneous upstream jobs succeed?

Question

In order to get the fastest feedback possible, we occasionally want Jenkins jobs to run in Parallel. Jenkins has the ability to start multiple downstream jobs (or \'fork\' t

Answer 1

The Multijob plugin works beautifully for that scenario. It also comes in handy if you want a single "parent" job to kick off multiple "child" jobs but still be able to execute each of the children manually, by themselves. This works by creating "phases", to which you add 1 to n jobs. The build only continues when the entire phase is done, so if a phase as multiple jobs they all must complete before the rest are executed. Naturally, it is configurable whether the build continues if there is a failure within the phase.