🔨 Day 10: GitLab CI/CD for Code Coverage and Static Code Analysis
🚀 Learning Objective: Learn how to integrate code coverage and static code analysis into your GitLab CI/CD pipeline. Understand how to generate code coverage reports, perform static code analysis to detect potential issues, and visualize these metrics within GitLab.
🤖 Scenario: To ensure code quality and maintainability, you want to add tools that automatically check how much of your code is covered by tests and analyze your code for potential issues like security vulnerabilities, coding standard violations, and performance inefficiencies. Code coverage and static code analysis help maintain high-quality code and prevent technical debt from building up over time.
📘 Explanation: Code coverage measures the percentage of your code that is covered by automated tests. Higher coverage typically indicates that more parts of the code are being tested, though 100% coverage doesn’t always mean the code is perfect. Static code analysis involves analyzing your source code without executing it, helping to catch issues early (e.g., security vulnerabilities, syntax errors, and style violations). GitLab supports integrating both coverage and static analysis reports into your CI/CD pipelines, enabling you to track and maintain code quality.
