Suppose you have a Job A, let us call this a parent job and you have the case where, you may want to build Job B iff ( if and only if ) the job A builds successfully. Then the usual way of setting this up is in the Job B configuration, Build after other projects are built > Projects to watch : Job A > Trigger only if build is stable

Say the Job A and Job B are triggered by SCM remotely. If this is the case, then you definitely would like to have a finer control. Any push to SCM may, would trigger both the jobs - Job A and Job B, even with the aforementioned setting. To avoid this and handle managing job chains more gracefully, we should use a configuration Advanced Project Options > Block build when upstream project is building in Job B.

However, this actually doesn’t run as purported! Issue

  • What happens? SCM trigger takes control over Block build when upstream project is building option and as a result what we see is Job A and Job B building at the same time.

To avoid this, what can be done is, set the configuration Post-build Actions > Build other projects > Project to build in Job A and specify the project name as Job B. Select Trigger only if build is stable

By doing this, any SCM trigger which may actually be triggering Job A and Job B at the same time, won’t do so and Jenkins will take a control on this by building Job A and on build success, Job B from the SCM changes would trigger the build.

Hope this helps!

Happy job chaining! :)