The Silk Performer plugin for the continuous integration tool Jenkins has received a major upgrade and now provides a number of new features. It lets you automate Silk Performer projects, collect results, and evaluate success conditions.
You can now execute jobs on Jenkins slaves, which allows you to use different configurations (in the form of differently configured machines) for your load tests.
The new Silk Performer Jenkins plugin provides two options to evaluate whether a job was completed successfully: You can either define success criteria directly within the Jenkins job configuration interface. Or you can configure to use the performance levels defined within the Silk Performer project.
You can now access the HTML Overview Report directly from within Jenkins with just one click. Also, you can access all artifacts Silk Performer generated during a load test execution from within Jenkins.
You can have Jenkins create trend charts to get quick performance feedback of measures you are interested in. The charts can be customized to display any metric of the completed load test. The chart shows the specified metric for the latest execution and the executions before that.
The plugin lets you link your job to a source control system. As a result, the job can automatically check out your Silk Performer project and all related files from your source control system and then execute the load test.
The new Silk Performer Jenkins plugin is available through the central Jenkins plugin repository. More information on how to set up the plugin is available through the Jenkins wiki.