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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.<\/p>\n\n

The problem was that one of the checks were failing which caused the pipeline to fail.<\/p>\n\n

Because it was failing, it was ignored.<\/p>\n\n

But if it's already failing and being ignored, how do you know you haven't broken something unexpectedly?<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

The problem was that one of the checks were failing which caused the pipeline to fail.<\/p>\n\n

Because it was failing, it was ignored.<\/p>\n\n

But if it's already failing and being ignored, how do you know you haven't broken something unexpectedly?<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }