Add Automation and CI/CD to the Project

[Bradltr95]

Current Situation

Currently, the project does not have any automated testing or CI/CD setup.

Plan for Automation

• Begin incorporating automated testing by following best practices outlined in Baeldung's Spring Boot Testing guide.
• Add API tests using RestAssured to validate the API endpoints.
• Investigate and implement database testing to ensure data integrity and persistence behavior.

Plan for CI/CD

• Create a GitHub Actions workflow (.yml file) to automate:
  • Building the project with Gradle
  • Running all tests
  • Optionally, setting up a PostgreSQL service for integration testing

Goal

To establish a basic but extendable automation and CI/CD pipeline, ensuring code quality and early bug detection for all future development.

Trello Board

https://trello.com/b/ZrYOMyaI/engineer-crud-service

[Bradltr95]

Some unit testing has been implemented for the SoftwareEngineer and SoftwareEngineerController classes as per the following PR:https://github.com/Bradltr95/spring-boot/pull/11

[Bradltr95]

Additional work has been completed to do initial integration of RestAssured and TestNG through the following pr:https://github.com/Bradltr95/spring-boot/pull/13

[Bradltr95]

The following PR:https://github.com/Bradltr95/spring-boot/pull/14 addresses the final issue which is implementing a workflow pipeline for CI/CD which will run our tests to verify deployments.

[Bradltr95]

For visibility, I'll leave this open.

[Bradltr95]

Some final changes that completed the RestAssured and TestNG integration can be found here: https://github.com/Bradltr95/spring-boot/pull/19

The pipeline is now running for all merges and PRs to develop or main. This means all tests will be run and linting will be applied.