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Keep your test suite passing

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+title: Keep your test suite passing
+date: 2024-11-05
+permalink: daily/2024/11/05/keep-your-test-suite-passing
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - test-driven-development
+  - automated-testing
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  Is your test suite passing? If not, what value is it providing?
+---
+
+I once joined a project that had some automated tests and quality checks which were run automatically in a CI pipeline whenever code was pushed.
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+The problem was that one of the checks were failing which caused the pipeline to fail.
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+Because it was failing, it was ignored.
+
+But if it's already failing and being ignored, how do you know you haven't broken something unexpectedly?
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+This is the value you get from automated tests that are run regularly, but if failures are being ignored, they aren't adding value or confidence the code works.
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+In the end, it was a small fix to get the tests and CI pipeline passing again and we made sure to keep it passing as much as possible once it was.