Create a Jenkins job for a Maven Selenium tests

Now a days CI (Continuous Integration) is a best practice, that is being followed in most of the projects. As a part of CI, executing the related tests after a deployment is crucial, to increase the quality of the product and to speed up the product release to the market.

Assuming you have the Maven project is ready and executing well from command prompt using the below Maven command to run you tests,

mvn clean install

How to create a Jenkins job for a maven project

Create a new job using "New Item"
Enter the Name and Select Maven Project and scroll down
If you have any other job from which you want to copy all the defined configuration you can specify here. Else Click on Ok
Write some description about the Job, So when some one sees the job can easily understand
Discard old builds option is to Keep the old builds up to certain no of days or you can select the no of old builds to keep. You can either give no of days or just no of builds to keep. Don't enter both
To send some Parameters to your tests, you can select "This Project is Parameterized" option.

Example for creating a parameter
Source code Management. If your code is in GIT repo, Then you need to specify the repo url and credentials to access it.Specify the branch which needs to be considered for build
If you want to trigger the build automatically then check the option "Build Periodically" from Build Triggers
When a build is stuck for more than accepted time then you can abort it using this option
You can do some Pre build actions, like moving some files or creating directories using this step
Build Step is where you give the path to your pom.xml file and write the maven command ex: "mvn clean install" or ... in goals options
If you want to add post build actions like triggering some email with report or run any other job, Post build option is used for that
Finally save the Job