Run Jobs Sequentially

Learn how to break down the tests into jobs and how to reorganize the pipeline to use inside of a job.

So far, we have executed all tests in a single job.

The Priority variable is passed to the goals of the Maven task so the tests with the specific priority are executed:

goals: 'clean test -Dgroups=$(Priority)'

Let’s say that we want to execute tests sequentially by priority:

  • First, the High priority tests should run.
  • Then, the Medium priority should run.
  • Finally, the Low priority ones should run.

How to execute jobs sequentially

To execute jobs sequentially, we need to change the pipeline code as follows so that it uses jobs and strategies:

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