QA · Junior · Theory

How do automated tests fit into continuous integration, and what happens when a test fails in the pipeline?

~4 min by voice

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This checks whether the candidate understands that automated tests in CI are an automatic quality filter on every change, not a manual run before a release, and whether they can respond to a failure properly: not rerun blindly, but investigate the cause.

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The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

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