Figure 2.19. Your first build job running
The build will also now figure proudly on your Jenkins server’s home page (see Figure 2.20, “The
Jenkins dashboard”). This page shows a summary of all of your build jobs, including the current build
status and general state of heath of each of your builds. It tells you when each build ran successfully for
the last time, and when it last failed, and also the result of the last build.
Once of Jenkins’s specialities is the way it lets you get an idea of build behavior over time. For example,
Jenkins uses a weather metaphor to help give you an idea of the stability of your builds. Essentially,
the more your builds fail, the worse the weather gets. This helps you get an idea of whether a particular
broken build is an isolated event, or if the build is breaking on a regular basis, in which case it might
need some special attention.
You can also manually trigger a build job here, using the build schedule button (that’s the one that looks
a bit like a green play button on top of a clock).
Figure 2.20. The Jenkins dashboard