A prologue of JENKINS with comparative scrutiny of various software integration tools

Software configuration tools are becoming popular day by day. In this paper, we describe an open source continuous integration tool: Jenkins, which is on the whole a server-oriented arrangement that runs in a servlet like container (like, Apache Tomcat). It supports various Source Control Management (SCM) tools including, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, Clear case and Rational Team Concert (RTC). The design, functionality, and usage of Jenkins are presented in this paper. The aim of this research paper is to emphasize on the Jenkins Integration Development Environment (IDE) and evaluate and compare five software integration tools to determine their usability and effectiveness.