In our Test Automation environment we use an Ubuntu machine with Subversion and Jenkins. We launch our Test Cases over Windows machines, so there are few simple steps we must follow to configure Jenkins properly.

NOTE: here you have a guide to install Jenkins in Ubuntu 11.04.

1. Security: first of all, I recommend you to follow the initial steps of this guide to configure security in Jenkins.

2. To allow Windows machines to find our Ubuntu Server. Install Samba in Ubuntu: go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center Go to “Get software“. Search and install samba:

After samba installation, go to Jenkins and click on “Manage Jenkins” > “Configure System“. Change “localhost” in Jenkins Url field for your servername (or IP, but with this steps, name resolution should work fine!):

3. To allow our Ubuntu server to find Windows machines:

$ sudo apt-get install winbind
$ sudo gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf

• Find this line:

 hosts: files dns [...]

• Add “wins” to the line and save:

hosts: files wins dns [...]

4. Plugins installed for our test automation environment:

• Subversion Plugin
• Screenshot Plugin
• Robot Framework Plugin

To install them, go to “Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins > All plugins“, select them and click on “Install“. Jenkins must be restarted in order to get installed pluging working.