What is Jenkins Build Cause?

1.	What is Jenkins Build Cause?
Answer» Build Cause is a text ATTRIBUTE that represents what MADE a job's build to be triggered, SAY it could be a Jenkins USER (from UI), Timer for Scheduled jobs, Upstream jobs for a job which was triggered by upstream job, etc. This is mainly used to identify the NATURE of the builds - be it nightly, manual, automated, etc.

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