Trigger Jenkins job from Jira on demand

Question

Jenkins-Jira plugin, Is there a way to configure the plugin to trigger a build on demand?.

I am currently investigating on integrating Jenkins and Jira where a automated test case can be triggered from Jira and the results from Jenkins will be posted to Jira as a comment. (But the above trigger should be on a case basis and should not be triggered with status change to Jira ticket)

I have evaluated the scenario using Zapier (Trial version) couldn't get it as needed. Any suggestions are welcome

Answer 1

JIRA Trigger Plugin is capable of triggering a job based on a comment regex pattern ie "Ready for testing!", etc.

JIRA Issue Updater Plugin is capable of adding a comment to JIRA. You can post a link back to your Jenkins test result. When your job is successfully triggered by JIRA Trigger Plugin, you will receive an environment variable JIRA_ISSUE_KEY that can then be used in the JQL for selecting issues to be updated field. Do note that I have not tested this second part.

Answer 2

Add one of the following links:

• JENKINS_URL/job/JOB_NAME/build
• JENKINS_URL/job/JOB_NAME/buildWithParameters?...

(see JENKINS_URL/job/JOB_NAME/api for full documentation)

to:

• JIRA's application navigator
• an appropriate Velocity template, like in Modifying the JIRA Footer