Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

Writing a script for each stage in the deployment pipeline

During the commit stage of a deployment pipeline, you will have actions that the deployment script will need to do. For example, you might need to compile any source files, run a suite of unit and integration tests, and run a linting tool that checks code style and perhaps a static analysis tool. All of these steps might require using different tools, so writing a script that does all of this is best. Depending on the particular actions of the script, you might want to further break down a script into subscripts that perform focused actions. During the acceptance test stage, your script might run the entire acceptance test suite and additionally generate some reports and metrics about ...