The document discusses plugin development for Jenkins using Gradle and Groovy. It presents Gradle as a build tool for Jenkins plugins that can generate the plugin file and deploy it. Groovy is highlighted as a programming language that can be used along with Java for plugin development. Spock is recommended as a testing framework that works with the constraints of Groovy 1.8 used in Jenkins. Examples of building, testing, and deploying plugins with Gradle and Groovy are also provided.