exercise-004.md

Exercise 004 - Create a test job

Testing is important part of the DevOps lifecycle, every test step added adds a level of trust to the application.

Create a test job

The job for testing is a composition of tasks that validate the quality of the application.

• In the pipeline.yml add a new job with name test

- name: test # Name of the job
  plan:
  - get: sources # Download the sources
    trigger: true
    passed: [build] # Trigger after job build has passed
  - task: unit test
    file: sources/CI/task-unit-test.yml

• Create a new task definition in the CI directory with the name task-unit-test.yml. The task should have the following content.

platform: linux

image_resource:
  type: docker-image
  source: {repository: openjdk, tag: 8-alpine}
inputs:
  - name: sources

run:
  path: ./gradlew
  args: ["test"]
  dir: sources/application

• Commit the changes and push them
• After a few moments a new build is triggered
• Update the pipeline with $ fly -t lite set-pipeline -p devops-training -c pipeline.yml --load-vars-from secrets.yml
• After the pipeline update the pipeline should look like this.

Continue building the pipeline with a deployment.