Advancing the Jenkins Tekton Client Plugin through CRD Generation, JUnit 5 Modernization, and Automated CI

The Jenkins Tekton Client Plugin bridges Jenkins and Kubernetes-native Tekton pipelines, allowing Jenkins users to trigger and manage Tekton resources directly from their existing CI/CD workflows. Over the course of Google Summer of Code 2025, significant progress was made in modernizing, stabilizing, and extending the plugin’s capabilities. This project introduced end-to-end CI automation, migrated tests to JUnit 5, implemented large-scale CRD-to-Java and UI generation systems, and improved Jenkins–Tekton interoperability.