I'm a little bit of a noob to Jenkins and I'm having trouble
discribing this so bear with me.
For a while now we've been using Jenkins as a launching platform for
our QA testing. We have a virtual machine that we revert and then we
install various products on the machine. To give QA members
flexibility the job that manages this has a few "Choice" parameters
that can be used to select "Product" and "Version". Farther down on
the configure page in "Set Environment Variables" I access the
parameter as follows ${Product} and ${Version}.
In active releases we have always just tested the latest build but my
company now wants further granularity to test individual builds. I've
been playing with the "Run" parameter and I can view/select an
individual build and when I do this I can see the variable in the
console displayed as follows:
TEST_RUN=http://orl-reg-vsbld23:8080/hudson/job/Temp_Product/17/
TEST_RUN.jobName=Temp_Product
TEST_RUN.number=17
I've been able to use "TEST_RUN" as ${TEST_RUN} but I actually don't
want the URL I want the other 2 variables and I haven't had any luck
accessing them. ${TEST_RUN.jobName} and ${TEST_RUN.number} don't seem
to work and I've tried about 20 other ways to access these variables.
Can anyone out there explain to me how to do this?
Any help or links to educational resources would be greatly
appreciated.
