GitLab GitLab Group Kickoffs - Verify:Pipeline Insights, 11 Aug 2022

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From YouTube: GitLab 15.4 Kickoff - Verify:Pipeline Insights

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Pipeline Insights is happy to share our milestone 15.4 plans!

A

All right hi, I'm jocelyn, I am the pm for pipeline insights. uh Our pipeline insights group is responsible for the build artifacts, the co-testing and coverage review, apps and performance testing uh that you'll find in the verify stage here at gitlab. I'm here today with our ux designer gina to kick off milestone 15-4.

A

So as part of 15-4 in this, in this upcoming milestone, we're going to continue to focus on instrumentation, we have been working on improving our instrumentation in this past miles in this current milestone, and we we will continue through that journey. Now that we have set up our infrastructure to get additional items instrumented, including our coverage report.

A

We have a couple of bug, fixes that we're also working on as well as we want to focus on improving the visibility of child artifacts. So you know we've heard loud and clear that we have a lot of parent pipelines with child pipelines and we want to improve that visibility.

A

This really lines up with our category direction for build artifacts. You know we want to be able to improve the usability of artifacts uh in the existing uis.

A

uh So one of the issues that we are working on as well in terms of bugs and consumption is we want to improve how we are currently copying objects, um our artifact objects from one bucket to another. We know that this has caused some latency pains as well on on customer end, and so this is something that we're heavily focused on and improving.

A

Another item that ties to our usability is updating the artifacts table to be able to support more data, a lot of data that has been requested and based off of the research gina has done.

A

You know we want to incorporate all that information that you all need in a nice readable table format, so we're going to start kicking this off. This is certainly a multiple milestone journey, but we're excited to um to get that first glimpse out there and- and we're excited to share this with you. So I will kick it over to gina to talk about some of the research.

B

Thanks jocelyn, um so the first uh issue that we'll be working on is improving the location of review apps in an mr- and this relates to the research that I was doing in 15 30, um just understanding, like the the user flows of how developers interact with review apps once they're configured to understand why they are not noticeable today and so using the insights that we got from that will make some edits to what they look like in mrs today and make that experience better.

B

And then the other issue that I'll be working on is incorporating test reports from child pipelines into the pipeline test page. So we added um or we are going to be, adding the uh test.

B

The child pipeline test reports into that page, at least in the back end, and then we want to just be able to link to okay. This test report came from this pipeline so that it's very clear if it's the child pipeline or if it's the parent pipeline that it came from and that is it from the ux sign.

A

All right, so thank you, gina, so yeah lots of exciting improvements, um especially in terms of the visibility for build artifacts coming uh starting in this milestone and certainly uh coming in the next few. We are really excited about this work. We really hope that we are improving your efficiencies as users and uh yeah. We look forward to the feedback.

A

We're excited for this release, so um do feel free to ask questions, uh and please please, please continue to comment in our issues um and help us bring awareness to any any pain points that we can help solve. Have a good one.