CircleCI Enhances Software Testing Performance with Test Insights

Last updated on February 21st, 2023 at 06:38 pm

CircleCI is considered one of the leading platforms for continuous delivery and continuous integration. According to Testing Insights, the latest feature of CircleCI’s insights dashboard, spreading analytics functionality into an important aspect of software development is test performance.

Insights capabilities play a significant role in understanding CI/CD processes and the effect of changes and guarantee excellent release quality. CircleCI’s test insight helps in providing more visibility in the testing process. This will enable teams to attain greater velocity by speedily recovering and identifying from flaky and failed tests, with higher accuracy like the byproduct.

As per CircleCI data, the average unsuccessful workflow wastes about thirty minutes. With more than 4000 flaky tests pinpointed per day, CircleCI users can save more than 2000 wasted hours each day collectively. This is done by eradicating flaky test failures. Test insights assist engineering teams to make better and more informed decisions. This will permit them to deliver software to their user very efficiently.

Test insights are one of those data-drive features that create CircleCI’s insights dashboard. This is powered by software processing information for exceeding 3 million jobs each day. Solutions such as CircleCI’s insights dashboard are crucial to software-driven businesses. These will enable engineering teams to create meaningful and actionable enhancements to their development procedures.

Some additional advantages of CircleCI’s Test Insights encompass:

·         Detection of Flaky Test: Detect tests with impulsive behavior, define the tests that have the capability to fail and pass indeterminately via proactive flagging.

·         Enhanced Velocity: Pinpoint the most failed and the longest-running tests, rapidly fixing them, and getting back to development quickly, for overall enhanced efficiency.

·         Significant look back times to comprehend performance changes with time: Identify transformation in performance and behavior, and identify the offenders behind these transformations in order to enhance efficiency moving forward.

·         Aptitude to make actionable enhancements with insight trends: Find comparative standards at the job-level, organization, workflow-level, and trends for Mean Time to Retrieval, Throughput, and Period metrics, for one day, one week, and one-month time windows to effortlessly trail team productivity.