DISCOVERY
November 15th, 2022
Building and Testing Go Code using Please Build and GitHub Actions
During software development, it's important to test logic and perform static code analysis to ensure programs meet certain standards. Build tools and CI/CD platforms help developers automate these tasks. There are many different build tools, such as Make, Bazel, and Please, along with many CI/CD platforms, such as Jenkins, TravisCI, and GitHub Actions (to name a few). Due to a wide variety of choices, it can be overwhelming for engineers to pick the best option for their codebase.
Although I've experimented a bit with TravisCI in the past, most of my CI/CD work up until now has been on Jenkins. Outside of language or platform specific build tools (such as CMake or Webpack), I haven't used many language-agnostic build tools in my code up to this point. While designing my go-programming repository, which contains Go programming language code samples, I decided to work with a new build tool and CI/CD platform.