登录查看更多内容

How can you ensure code quality in continuous integration?

由人工智能和领英社区提供技术支持

Continuous integration (CI) is a practice that allows developers to merge their code changes frequently and automatically into a shared repository, where they can run tests and check for errors. CI can help improve the quality, efficiency, and reliability of software development, but it also poses some challenges and risks. How can you ensure code quality in CI and avoid introducing bugs, vulnerabilities, or performance issues into your codebase?

此文章中的业界达人

由社区从 4 条内容中精选。了解更多

Irene Spanou

Software Engineer/Software Architect
Vladi Lyga

Technologist, Software architect @ Microsoft

1 Use a code quality tool

One of the best ways to ensure code quality in CI is to use a code quality tool that can analyze your code and provide feedback on various aspects, such as syntax, style, complexity, duplication, security, and documentation. A code quality tool can help you identify and fix issues before they become problems, and enforce consistent standards and best practices across your team. Some examples of code quality tools are SonarQube, CodeClimate, and Codacy. You can integrate these tools with your CI pipeline and configure them to run automatically on every commit or pull request.

添加您的观点

Vladi Lyga

Technologist, Software architect @ Microsoft
举报内容
Code "quality" tools in CI pipeline - by the nature of running at the end of the dev cycle - cannot ensure quality, only to say if there is quality or not (to a given definition of it). Staying in the domain of automated tests and checks - shifting left helps. Ability to run code quality tools on the local machine shortens feedback cycles but can slow the development and requires additional investments in infrastructure.

已翻译

赞
Michael Carter

Owner at MCAREL Consulting
举报内容
These tools and tools like them are definitely the way to go. I've most experience with Code Narc and Intelij Inspections. The main challenge is defining your code quality metrics. Too few and you may be missing important issues. In this situation you you'll end up relying on manual reviews too heavily. To many/rigid metrics and you may find your set-up affecting productivity and innovation. In any case it important to get a balance between auto and manual reviews. Plus it critical developers have access to the tool you're using locally so they can run it before check-in.

已翻译

赞

2 Write and run tests

Another essential way to ensure code quality in CI is to write and run tests that can verify the functionality, performance, and security of your code. Tests can help you catch bugs, errors, and regressions early, and ensure that your code meets the requirements and expectations of your users and stakeholders. You should write different types of tests, such as unit, integration, functional, and end-to-end tests, and use a testing framework that suits your language and platform. You should also run your tests frequently and automatically in your CI pipeline, and use a tool that can generate reports and metrics on your test coverage and results.

添加您的观点

Praveen Kalavai

DevOps Engineer| Microsoft Azure| Azure Devops| PowerShell| CI/CD| Windows Administration| SQL| C#
举报内容
- Adopt Shift left culture, Agile framework and Test-Driven development for a strong foundation for continuous integration. - Set Branch policies and mandate code reviews to ensure quality code is being pushed to the repos. - Implement test automation, code quality analysis, and security scans in your CI pipelines to ensure that the code coverage, quality and reliability are up to the set standards in your organization. - Establish a strong feedback loop with the development and testing teams to fix any issues arising during the continuous integration process before the code is eventually deployed.

已翻译

赞

3 Implement code reviews

A third way to ensure code quality in CI is to implement code reviews, which are the process of examining and evaluating the code written by other developers before merging it into the main branch. Code reviews can help you improve the readability, maintainability, and consistency of your code, and also detect and prevent issues that might not be caught by automated tools or tests. Code reviews can also foster collaboration, learning, and feedback among your team members, and promote a culture of quality and accountability. You can use a tool that supports code reviews, such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, and follow some best practices, such as defining clear guidelines, providing constructive comments, and keeping the reviews short and focused.

添加您的观点

4 Monitor and measure quality

A fourth way to ensure code quality in CI is to monitor and measure the quality of your code and your CI pipeline over time, and use the data to identify and address areas of improvement. You can use various metrics and indicators to assess the quality of your code, such as complexity, maintainability, security, defect density, and technical debt. You can also use metrics and indicators to evaluate the performance and efficiency of your CI pipeline, such as build time, build frequency, build success rate, and deployment frequency. You can use a tool that can collect, visualize, and analyze these metrics and indicators, such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog, and set up alerts and notifications for any anomalies or issues.

添加您的观点

5 Learn and improve continuously

A fifth way to ensure code quality in CI is to learn and improve continuously, based on the feedback, results, and data that you get from your code quality tool, tests, code reviews, and monitoring and measurement tools. You should use these sources of information to identify the root causes of any issues or problems, and implement corrective and preventive actions to avoid repeating them. You should also use these sources of information to discover and implement new ways to enhance the quality, efficiency, and reliability of your code and your CI pipeline. You should also share your learnings and improvements with your team and stakeholders, and solicit their input and suggestions for further improvement.

添加您的观点

6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

添加您的观点

Irene Spanou

Software Engineer/Software Architect
举报内容
The thing I've found the most helpful during CI, maintainability-wise, is to plan ahead and plan well. If you manage to split the requested feature into multiple, small, semantically separated and individually testable pieces of code, you will be able to implement them separately, test them separately and eventually merge them with no issues. Follow the above and you can be reasonably certain that when joining all parts to make a whole, everything will fall into place without much effort. You need to be meticulous in your design, though. Consider the desirable outcome, figure out edge cases and things that can go wrong and make sure that you'll take them into consideration during your implementation.

已翻译

赞

Application Development

+ 关注

给文章评分

我们借助人工智能创建了此文章。您认为这篇文章怎么样？

很棒不太好

举报此文章

查看全部

How can you ensure code quality in continuous integration?

1

2

3

4

5

6

1 Use a code quality tool

2 Write and run tests

3 Implement code reviews

4 Monitor and measure quality

5 Learn and improve continuously

6 Here’s what else to consider

Application Development

给文章评分

感谢您的反馈

更多Application Development相关文章

更多相关阅读内容