Gradle in Action

foreword 
preface 
acknowledgments 
about this book 
about the cover illustration 

Part 1 Introducing Gradle

Chapter 1 Introduction to project automation
Life without project automation
Benefits of project automation
Types of project automation
Build tools
Java build tools
Summary
Chapter 2 Next-generation builds with Gradle
Why Gradle? Why now?
Gradle’s compelling feature set
The bigger picture: continuous delivery
Installing Gradle
Getting started with Gradle
Using the Command line
Summary
Chapter 3 Building a Gradle project by example
Introducing the case study
Building a Java project
Web development with Gradle
Gradle wrapper
Summary
Part 2 Mastering the fundamentals

Chapter 4 Build script essentials
Building blocks
Working with tasks
Hooking into the build lifecycle
Summary
Chapter 5 Dependency management
A quick overview of dependency management
Learning dependency management by example
Dependency configurations
Declaring dependencies
Using and configuring repositories
Understanding the local dependency cache
Troubleshooting dependency problems
Summary
Chapter 6 Multiproject builds
Modularizing a project
Assembling a multiproject build
Configuring subprojects
Individual project files
Customizing projects
Summary
Chapter 7 Testing with Gradle
Automated testing
Testing Java applications
Unit testing
Configuring test execution
Integration testing
Functional testing
Summary
Chapter 8 Extending Gradle
Introducing the plugin case study
From zero to plugin
Writing a script plugin
Writing custom task classes
Using and building object plugins
Summary
Chapter 9 Integration and migration
Ant and Gradle
Maven and Gradle
Comparing builds
Summary
Part 3 From build to deployment

Chapter 10 IDE support and tooling
Using IDE plugins to generate project files
Managing Gradle projects in popular IDEs
Embedding Gradle with the tooling API
Summary
Chapter 11 Building polyglot projects
Managing JavaScript with Gradle
Building polyglot, JVM-based projects
Other languages
Summary
Chapter 12 Code quality management and monitoring
Integrating code analysis into your build
Measuring code coverage
Performing static code analysis
Integrating with Sonar
Summary
Chapter 13 Continuous integration
Benefits of continuous integration
Setting up Git
Building a project with Jenkins
Exploring cloud-based solutions
Modeling a build pipeline with Jenkins
Summary
Chapter 14 Artifact assembly and publishing
Building artifacts and distributions
Publishing artifacts to a binary repository
Publishing to a public binary repository
Artifact assembly and publishing as part of the build pipeline
Summary
Chapter 15 Infrastructure provisioning and deployment
Infrastructure provisioning
Targeting a deployment environment
Automated deployments
Deployment tests
Deployment as part of the build pipeline
Summary


appendix A Driving the command line
appendix B Groovy for Gradle users

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