Jenkins Build Flow AND Build Pipeline plugins

Question

Will the Build Pipeline plugin still show the sequence of jobs properly if the jobs are run using Build Flow (including a repeated job)?

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Here is pseudocode for our build flow:

build("Package")
build("Deploy", destination: "http://test") // deploy to our test environment
build("IntegrationTests", target: "http://test") // run automated tests
build("Deploy", destination: "http://stage") // deploy to stage

• Package will pull code from source control, compile it, and store it as an artifact
• Deploy will copy artifacts from the upstream Package job then copy it to the URL provided in the destination parameter
• IntegrationTests will run a suite of integration tests against the URL provided in the destination parameter.

Will the Build Pipeline plugin show this pipeline as 4 steps even though the Deploy job is repeated?

Package  =>  Deploy (test)  =>  IntegrationTests  =>  Deploy (stage)

Answer 1

The new solution, which is being adopted with Jenkins 2.0, is the Pipeline plugin. Also, CloudBees open-sourced their Pipeline Stage View plugin which provides a visualization to the Pipeline plugin.