Understanding how to use the Jenkins API is made especially complex by the fact that much of the useful functionality is only available within the "Hudson" namespace - or at least this is how the documentation appears to present it.

This is just plain dumb. It is totally unclear under what circumstances a developer should look in "Hudson" or in "Jenkins" to find the API of interest.

As a (very) experienced software developer I am at a complete loss as to how to script what - to my initial impression - should be a trivial script to discover the "culprits" of a build break.