Technical Documents and Resources

SonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages.

Slack is a cloud-based proprietary instant messaging platform developed by Slack Technologies. Slack provides a smart alternative to corporate email system. This plug-in has been designed to manage Slack Teams from Kovair DevOps platform.

ServiceNow is a ticketing tool used to manage Technology Service Management tasks.It provides a centralized service catalog for personnel to request for technology services or information about applications and processes that are being used in the system.

Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

The Microsoft Build Engine is a platform for building applications. This engine, which is also known as MSBuild, provides an XML schema for a project file that controls how the build platform processes and builds software. Visual Studio uses MSBuild, but it doesn’t depend on Visual Studio.

MicroServices Plugin can be used to send REST API calls using an API resource URL and HTTP headers. The MicroServices Plugin simplifies making REST API calls within your microservices ecosystem. RESTful communication between microservices is crucial for maintaining a scalable, modular architecture.

Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven addresses two aspects of building software: first, it describes how software is built, and second, it describes its dependencies. Unlike earlier tools like Apache Ant, it uses conventions for the build procedure, and only exceptions need to be written down.

Kubernetes (commonly stylized a K8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a “platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations

JIRA is a project management tool used for issues and bugs tracking system. It is widely used as an issue-tracking tool for all types of testing. This plugin was developed and tested against version present on Jira Cloud. It is widely used as an issue-tracking tool for all types of testing.

JFrog Artifactory is an artifact repository manager, which is entirely technology agnostic and fully supports software created in any language or using any tool. It is also the only enterprise-ready repository manager available that supports secure, clustered, high availability Docker registries.

Jenkins is a free and open source automation server written in Java. Jenkins helps to automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery.

Github Plugin hosting service for software development version control using Git. Github Information More information can be found at Github. This plugin was developed and tested against version present on Github Cloud.