# wakaleo/game-of-life

Demo application for the 'Jenkins: The Definitive Guide' book

Repository: https://github.com/wakaleo/game-of-life
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/game-of-life
Homepage: http://www.wakaleo.com/books/jenkins-the-definitive-guide
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-08-05T20:50:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5600, "days_push": 758, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2073, forks 19970 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:10.559083+00:00)

## What it is
A multi-module Maven demo application implementing Conway's Game of Life, used as the example project in the book 'Jenkins: The Definitive Guide'. It includes a web frontend, Jetty deployment, and Serenity/Webdriver acceptance tests for practicing continuous integration with Jenkins.

## Use cases
- learn Jenkins continuous integration with a hands-on example
- practice setting up CI pipelines for a Java Maven project
- see how to run Webdriver acceptance tests with Serenity
- demo project for testing Jenkins build jobs and pipelines
- example of a multi-module Maven web application
- sample app for learning automated deployment and build automation

## When to choose
- you are reading 'Jenkins: The Definitive Guide' and want the companion code
- you need a simple, realistic Java web app to experiment with Jenkins or CI tooling
- you want an example of Serenity BDD acceptance tests running against a live server

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready Game of Life implementation
- you want a maintained application with active feature development
- you need a project with a clear open-source license for redistribution

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: testing, e2e-testing, ci-cd, build-tool
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, testing
- platform: jvm
- tags: jenkins, continuous-integration, demo-application, conways-game-of-life, maven, serenity-bdd, webdriver, sample-code, automation, web-server

## Member repositories
- wakaleo/game-of-life (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:10.559083+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:56:40.315410+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wakaleo/game-of-life (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:10.559083+00:00, sha 4c815e4cdafa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.