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What is Gating

Chapter 12
Emerging Automation Techniques for the Future Internet
In software engineering, the gating consists in different check points triggered by an automation system, potentially in parallel, before merging any change to the reference source code. Gating aims to ensure the good quality of the code by running test suites and linting operations. It is part of the CI.
Published in Chapter:
The Open Source Community Choice: Automate or Die!
Morgan Richomme (Orange Labs, France)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7146-9.ch012
Abstract
Open source communities have had and continue to have a major influence on the evolution of the Internet. By their nature, such communities involve people with diverse coding cultures and skills. Automation has consequently been of major interest to open source software developers for a long time, and many open source tools have been developed to address code variability and sustainability challenges. This chapter discusses why open source communities must automate and the challenges they will face. Solutions and current examples of automation in open source projects are provided as a guide to what is achievable. OpenShift, OpenStack, and OPNFV communities are used to illustrate different approaches and best practices. Two recently initiated automation initiatives are detailed: “Cross Community Continuous Integration” (XCI) and “Cross Testing” (Xtesting). Finally, some recommendations are provided for new projects as a guide to ease adoption of appropriate tools and methods.
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