Is there a way to use Jenkins with Github Pull Requests?

Question

I want Jenkins to automatically find and run the test suite for every branch that is part of an open pull request. Is this possible with some Jenkins plugin I have not found?

Answer 1

One method that should work is you could rename the branch when it is "prepared for integration" and ready to be tested.

A naming convention like prep/my_feature.

Then in the Jenkins git plugin you can configure the branch names that you want it to look at for building. You can have it match 'prep/*'.

We used to do this for all our feature branches using a prefix of 'dev/' to mark the feature branches that should have the autobuild run for them. Seems to work pretty well.