Sharing build artifacts between jobs in Hudson

Question

I\'m trying to set up our build process in hudson.

Job 1 will be a super fast (hopefully) continuous integration build job that will be built frequently.

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Answer 1

I'm doing something like that now. I'd recommend avoiding any attempt to run many jobs in the same shared workspace. I've only had problems with that.

I'm using maven and the free-form projects type. One set of jobs runs when the files in the version control system trigger it. They create local snapshot artifacts. A second set of jobs run nightly and set up a integration test environment then run tests on it.

If you aren't using maven; one option it to set up an area on disk and have the final steps in job one copy the artifacts to that spot. The first steps of job two should be to move those files over. The run whatever you need to run.

As for job three, there are findbugs/checkstyle/pmd et all plugins for Hudson now. I'd recommend just creating a version of job 1 that does a clean nightly checkout and runs those on you code base.