Introducing Foresight's Test Dashboard: A Game Changer for Your CI/CD Workflows

Detect flaky and failed tests. Be confident of your test performance, health, and coverage

Introduction

We are excited to announce the launch of Foresight's Test Dashboard, a new observability feature for GitHub Actions workflows and tests. Whether you're a developer, DevOps engineer, SRE, QA, or test engineer, Foresight will revolutionize how you manage and monitor your software tests.

With Foresight's Test Dashboard, you'll gain visibility into the state of your test suites, and be able to identify performance issues and test failures in real-time. The dashboard provides you with a test-first perspective on your workflows, making it easier than ever to optimize your testing processes.

Foresight's test dashboard provides a test-centric view of your CI status, allowing you to monitor performance efficiently and identify test failures over time and across branches.

What is the Test Dashboard

The test dashboard gives you a test-first perspective on the state of your CI. It can assist you in looking into performance issues and test failures over time and branch.

Software teams need to analyze their test suites and tests, such as determining which ones cause the most failures, calculating the median, p90, p95, and average duration, identifying days with high error rates, and monitoring performance in feature branches

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Here are a few of the problems that the Test Dashboard solves:

Identifying the most failing test suites/tests:‍

It can be difficult to keep track of which tests are failing the most and why. With Foresight's Test Dashboard, you can easily see which tests are causing the most failures and take action to address the issues.

Understanding test performance trends:‍

Over time, your tests may become slower or more prone to failure. With Foresight's Test Dashboard, you can observe the trends in your test performance and identify any issues that need to be addressed.

Keeping track of code coverage:‍

It's important to ensure that all of your code is being tested. With Foresight's Test Dashboard, you can see which parts of your code are not being tested and take action to close the gaps before your code reaches production.

Flaky Tests

Flaky tests fail to produce a consistent result, despite no changes to the code or the test itself. Foresight marks your flaky tests with their flakiness severity

Foresight captures test history so as to identify flaky tests and understand what went wrong. This saves time for developers, testers, and quality engineers. It also provides the DevOps team with more time to build infrastructure for the application instead of spending time building tools and services for monitoring tests.

Learn more about Foresight’s flaky test management from the below video, and see the documentation for more information.

Which frameworks does Foresight support?

To start using the Test Dashboard, you need to configure the Test kit into your YAML. You can use: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium and many more frameworks with JUnit, JSON and TXT report formats.

For more information please refer to the documentation.

Why Would you use it?

Long running test suites, and frequent failing tests are the most common reason slowing down build times and hence reducing deployment frequency. Foresight provides visibility into test runs, enabling teams to quickly troubleshoot test failures, detect flaky tests, identify slow tests, and visualize performance over time to identify trends.

“Faster shipment & better code quality & safer deployments”

The benefits of Foresight's Test Dashboard are clear:

Through increased test visibility, you can cut testing times with performance analysis and optimize your test cycle times and reduce infrastructure, troubleshooting, and resource costs.

Teams increase developer productivity by reducing hours spent troubleshooting tests with the help of Foresight’s test dashboard which enables them to find and fix erroneous, slow, and flaky tests.

Additionally, it’s super easy to keep up with end-to-end test coverage and monitor code coverage to identify untested code changes before reaching production.

Conclusion

As a software developer, you understand the importance of testing your code. Whether it's unit tests, integration tests, or end-to-end tests, testing is a critical component of the software development process. However, with so many tests to run and so much code to cover, it can be difficult to keep track of the performance and health of your tests. This is where Foresight's Test Dashboard comes in.

Foresight's Test Dashboard is a must-have tool for anyone looking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their CI/CD workflows. With the ability to root-cause flaky, erroneous, and slow tests, you can be confident in your test performance, health, and coverage. Start using Foresight's Test Dashboard today and experience the benefits for yourself.

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