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The main part of my CI pipeline tasks are running the automated tests, coding standards checks and static analysis.<\/p>\n\n
But which of these are the most valuable?<\/p>\n\n
I used to run the coding standards check first as it was the quickest, followed by static analysis and the automated tests.<\/p>\n\n
If a task were going to fail, it would fail quickly.<\/p>\n\n
But is that the objective of the CI pipeline?<\/p>\n\n
Whilst it needs to be quick, the main reason to run these is to ensure things work as expected.<\/p>\n\n
Recently, I changed my pipelines to run the tests first, as these verify the code's behaviour.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
The main part of my CI pipeline tasks are running the automated tests, coding standards checks and static analysis.<\/p>\n\n
But which of these are the most valuable?<\/p>\n\n
I used to run the coding standards check first as it was the quickest, followed by static analysis and the automated tests.<\/p>\n\n
If a task were going to fail, it would fail quickly.<\/p>\n\n
But is that the objective of the CI pipeline?<\/p>\n\n
Whilst it needs to be quick, the main reason to run these is to ensure things work as expected.<\/p>\n\n
Recently, I changed my pipelines to run the tests first, as these verify the code's behaviour.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-11T09:00:34+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "40970926a00c3a7ef56c821881cbbc63", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }