Jenkins automation server has a queuing mechanism to checkout jobs before execution and shutdown mode when the queue is frozen and the system just waits for all jobs to be finished. When the queue is full of short jobs and the last running job is a very long job, this becomes very inefficient. The student will analyze how Jenkins is estimating the time of individual jobs, how the queue is organized, and how the shutdown mode works.
The result of the thesis will be working Jenkins plugin, ensuring that short jobs can overtake frozen queue during the shutdown time of long-running tasks. The plugin will be deployed on the official website of the Jenkins project.