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Which part of the CI pipeline has the most value?

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+  Which part of the CI pipeline has the most value?
+pubDate: 2023-08-21
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+  archive/2023/08/21/which-part-of-the-ci-pipeline-has-the-most-value
+tags:
+  - continuous-integration
+  - automated-testing
+  - static-analysis
+---
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+The main part of my CI pipeline tasks are running the automated tests, coding standards checks and static analysis.
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+But which of these are the most valuable?
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+I used to run the coding standards check first as it was the quickest, followed by static analysis and the automated tests.
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+If a task were going to fail, it would fail quickly.
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+But is that the objective of the CI pipeline?
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+Whilst it needs to be quick, the main reason to run these is to ensure things work as expected.
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+Recently, I changed my pipelines to run the tests first, as these verify the code's behaviour.
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+I want to know if the code works but has a coding standard error that needs to be fixed rather than the pipeline failing on the error and not knowing whether the code works.