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Description

The current pipeline is set up to build all targets in the build:main build with Release flags (with optimization). this includes all unit tests which might become more in the future and clutter the finished Docker application.

We should start distinguishing between

• system tests: tests on the final application, i.e., the dorie executable
• unit tests: tests that run special executables which only serve this purpose

Proposal

• Further split the build stage by creating a new job build:unit-tests: Compile all (unit) test executables.
• Remove build_tests command from build:main.
• Add job test:unit-tests to the testing stage: Run all system test executables here.
• Add custom target unit_test for running all system tests. This requires a naming convention for system tests: All system test targets must begin with dorie_ut_ test. They will be collected into the custom target using a regex match.

How to test the implementation?

New pipeline succeeds.

Related issues

!87 (merged), !82 (merged), !55 (merged) add more system tests.

People involved

@sospinar, what do you think?