What this book covers

Chapter 1, Why Hudson?, describes Hudson and explains how it can help many IT organizations to deliver higher quality software.

Chapter 2, Installing and Running Hudson, shows how Hudson can be installed and deployed in many different environments.

Chapter 3, Configuring and Securing Hudson, describes basic Hudson configuration and covers different methods to secure your Hudson installation.

Chapter 4, Installing and Developing Hudson Plugins, discusses several important Hudson plugins and explains how to extend the Hudson functionality by developing your own plugin.

Chapter 5, Building and Delivering with Hudson, shows how Hudson can be used to build several different types of software applications and how it can deploy a web application to an application server.

Chapter 6, Testing and Reporting with Hudson, covers how Hudson can be used to perform automated testing on software applications and generate reports describing the results.

Chapter 7, Upgrading Hudson and the Team Concept feature, goes through a basic Hudson upgrade and then demonstrates how to use the new Team Concept feature.

Appendix A, Online Resources, lists the websites for the products that were referenced in the book.