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# Jenkins (Freestyle)

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Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.

You can use our [jenkins](https://plugins.jenkins.io/tacotruck-plugin) plugin in your free-style project. You can setup jenkins from their official [docs](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/) or follow our [Jenkins (Pipeline)](/automation/ci-cd-integration/jenkins-pipeline.md) guide.

### Install Tacotruck plugin

Go to the "Available Plugins" section on the settings page and search for "Tacotruck" to install.

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### Install Node.js Plugin

Tacotruck plugin requires `nodejs` as dependency. Login to your jenkins dasboard and go to the settings page. Plugins are available at <http://localhost:8080/manage/pluginManager/available> this path. You can search for "Nodejs" plugin. Select the plugin and install. You may need to restart your jenkins instance after installing the nodejs plugin.

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### Configure Nodejs as Global Tool

1. Go to settings and click on tools section.

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2. Click on "Add Nodejs" button

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3. Install a Nodejs version. Please make sure that you install node **version** ≥ <mark style="color:red;">`20`</mark>. You need to name the Tool so that we can refer it later from the pipeline script.

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### Create a Freestyle project

Click on the "New Item" button from the home page of jenkins dashboard and create a new freestyle project.

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### Configure your project

First we need to configure `nodejs` environment for Tacotruck CLI. We can select the "Environment" tab and under "Envronment" section we should select the option to `Provide Node & npm bin/ folder to PATH`&#x20;

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### Add Build and Test step

You can configure build and test step based on your tech stack or requirements. Here is an example that runs a C# .NET test and outputs a `test-results.xml`  file.

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### Submit the test results using Tacotruck step

We can add "Execute Tacotruck" build step from "Add build step" dropdown button and configure all the required fields.

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### Support and Resources

* [TacoTruck Examples](https://github.com/testfiesta/tacotruck-examples)
* [Jenkins Plugin](https://plugins.jenkins.io/tacotruck)
* [Jenkins Plugin Source](https://github.com/jenkinsci/tacotruck-plugin)
* [Tacotruck Issues](https://github.com/testfiesta/tacotruck/issues)
* [**CLI Reference**](/automation/tacotruck-cli.md)