Best practices for monitoring software testing in CI/CD
A key challenge of monitoring your CI/CD system is understanding how to optimize your workflows and create best practices that help you minimize pipeline slowdowns and better respond to CI issues. In addition to monitoring CI pipelines and their underlying infrastructure, your organization also needs to cultivate effective relationships between platform and development teams. Fostering collaboration between these two teams is a critical and equally valuable aspect of improving the reliability and performance of your CI.
In this post, we’ll explore how platform teams can help developers visualize trends in CI test performance and notify them of new flaky tests, test failures, and performance regressions with dashboards and monitors. We’ll also detail best practices that can help developers identify, investigate, and remediate flaky tests.
Developers write tests to verify that their code meets functional, integration, and security requirements—but as organizations and their repositories grow, testing suites can easily become bloated and prone to performance and reliability regressions. The introduction and proliferation of slow, failing, and flaky tests present a major roadblock to maintaining pipeline health and developer productivity.
