Tag: ci
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CI: Heuristically Extracting Test Methods Before Runtime
1. Introduction Reducing pipeline time is a key problem in the pipeline time reduction epic. As mentioned in the previous post, this can be done by dividing tests in the project into smaller sets and run them in parallel CI jobs (sometimes called runners). The assignment of what tests to what jobs usually takes place at the end of the build job, before tests being executed. In order to assign/distribute tests to runners, we must know what tests we have.
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CI: Thinning iOS Build Artifacts
1. Introduction 1.1. Pipeline Time Improvement As engineers, we always want to land our change on master as quickly as possible. Apart from the time it takes to resolve code review comments from peers, there’s one constraint engineers have to face before getting their changes merged. That constraint is the CI pipeline time (ie. the time it takes for a CI pipeline to run against certain changes). For iOS development, a typical CI pre-merge pipeline usually involves building the project, then running unit tests and UI tests.
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When Project Labels are not Just to Categorize Things
Whether you are a fan of Github, Gitlab, BitBucket, or any git-based repo hosting platform, I am sure you must be farmiliar with project labels. Categorizing (Messy) Project Issues A common use case of project labels is to categorize project issues of a repo. For engineering discussion, we use Slack (or any alternative for instant messaging platform) only for quick discussions. Those usually end shortly. If such a discussion become lengthy, probably you used the wrong communication channel 😀?
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When iOS CI/CD Config is not Just a File or a Dashboard
A while ago, when I heard the term “CI/CD”, I always thought of a dashboard to drag and drop, upload certificates and input the scheme… blah blah. That’s all! And I was kinda believe that a good CI/CD platform must be like that: convenient, as few setups as possible. Now, I have a different viewpoint. What I very much expect in a CI/CD platform is the ability to customize workflow. This does not mean those drag-and-drop platforms are inadequate.
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Tản mạn: chuyện Gitlab
1 Khi mình join team, công ty mình host các projects trên Github. Một dev mới vào công ty sẽ được add tài khoản Github cá nhân mình vào tài khoản organization của công ty. Lúc ấy, trên Github profile của bạn sẽ hiển thị membership với công ty (bạn phải public cái membership thì người khác mới thấy được nha). Nếu bạn làm cho công ty nào ok, hoặc thuộc dạng top-notch trong nước/khu vực, thì Github profile của bạn sẽ có-vẻ đẹp hơn một tí.
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Random thoughts on being a CI engineer
In this post, I am going to talk about my experiences when working with CI/CD for iOS applications and some valuable lessons I learned. 1 In the past few months, I have been intensively working on CI/CD features in my team. My teammates sometimes refer to me as “the CI guy”. Before me, “the CI guy” was someone else who is humble, and quiet. After he left the company, I became the main PIC for CI/CD-related issues.