CircleCI Tutorial for Beginners | Learn CircleCI In 30 Minutes | LambdaTest

About The Video

CircleCI is one of the most powerful Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms available, supporting development teams to test, build and deploy software.

Built on top of industry-leading open source, CircleCI provides the infrastructure that powers developer tooling for modern applications. It is easy to minimize risk, increase speed, and maximize productivity through unified application delivery.

This CircleCI Tutorial for beginners and professionals demonstrates how you set up a CircleCI, and how to execute your first build on CircleCI with a simple CircleCI demo while helping you learn about CircleCI Orbs. Furthermore, you will get to learn what is a pipeline in CircleCI, how to build a CircleCI pipeline, and how to integrate your CircleCI Pipeline with LambdaTest.

Video Chapters

0:00​ Introduction to CircleCI Tutorial

6:14​ What are CircleCI Orbs?

7:58​ Getting familiar with the LambdaTest Platform

10:48 How to integrate LambdaTest with CircleCI

12:42 How CircleCI pipeline works

15:51​ Running tests in LambdaTest platform

21:05 Integrating running test with LambdaTest platform

26:16 Conclusion of Session

Key Topics Covered

Introduction to CircleCI: An overview of CircleCI as a CI tool that facilitates the process from idea to delivery. It explains CircleCI's position in the toolchain, integrating with version control tools like GitHub and automating the build process upon code commits.

CircleCI Workflow and Configuration: A demonstration of using CircleCI for automating various tasks, including code deployment, documentation building, security and code scans, and linting. It also touches on CircleCI's flexibility in integrating with almost any tool that has an API and is accessible over the internet.

Debugging with CircleCI: The video shows how to use CircleCI's unique capability to rerun jobs with SSH access for debugging, highlighting its importance for productivity and troubleshooting.

CircleCI's Configuration as Code: Detailed explanation on configuring CI/CD processes with CircleCI using YAML files, showcasing the flexibility in defining jobs, workflows, and their interdependencies.

Orbs in CircleCI: Introduction to Orbs, which are shareable packages of CircleCI configuration that simplify integration with third-party tools. The video discusses the ease of creating and using Orbs to extend functionality without needing to learn a new language or development tools.

Introduction to LambdaTest: Overview of LambdaTest as a cross-browser testing platform, explaining its significance in addressing browser compatibility issues and offering a vast range of browser versions for testing web applications.

LambdaTest Integration with CircleCI: The video demonstrates how to integrate LambdaTest with CircleCI for automated browser testing, showing a practical example of configuring a CI/CD pipeline for testing a web application across different browsers and operating systems.

Utilizing LambdaTest for Comprehensive Testing: Discussion on the capabilities of LambdaTest for performing live interactive testing, responsive testing, screenshot testing, and automated Selenium testing across a cloud-based Selenium grid.

Advanced Debugging and Test Management with LambdaTest: Insights into the advanced features of LambdaTest, including detailed logs, screenshots, and video recordings of test sessions, to facilitate debugging and performance analysis.

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