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[Al Romano]

That's great to hear that its first class!

To dive a bit deeper, when automating are you manually running code tests using automated checking tools (Wave,Tenon, etc...) and/or with unit testing as part of CI/CD?

Have any tips on helping to "toolchain" the process for DevOps?

[Toby Osbourn]

Both and it kind of varies by the project (something we're hoping to standardise).

Generally, we do:

• linters at the point of development
• pre-commit hooks for some static analysis
• CI for unit and automated checks. In that order (no point in everything passing colour contrast if unit tests fail)
• Manual QA before deploy