Many of you have been asking for better support for continuous integration in Bitbucket Cloud. Every time you trigger a build, whether by pushing commits or creating a pull request, you have to log in to your build server to see if it passed or failed. For many of you, we know it’s been a major hassle that you’ve had no way to see the build status right within the UI – until now.
Starting today, the build status API is available with updates to the UI providing at-a-glance feedback on commits, branches, and pull requests in Bitbucket Cloud. Now, you’ll be able to know when your build is passing and when it’s safe to merge changes saving you precious time to do what you do best: coding.
Commits
When viewing the commits in your repository, you can clearly see which of those commits have been checked out and tested by your CI tool of choice. If the tests all pass, you see a green checkmark, or else we display a red warning indicator.
For a more detailed view about the status of a commit, the commit view provides a listing of the passed or failed builds (if you have multiple builds), and passed or failed tests for each build. This saves you precious time as you don’t have to browse through log files of your CI tool trying to find why the build failed.
Pull Requests
An arguably even more useful application of the Bitbucket’s build status API is for pull requests. If you use pull requests to do code reviews (like we do), you know that one of the first questions you always ask as a reviewer is “Do the tests still pass?” This question is now easily answered by looking for a successful build status indicator in the pull request view.
Branches
You can also see the build status at a branch level which is great for distributed teams. Make sure your builds have passed before you merge your changes to the master branch.
Next Steps
We’re working on integrating with other CI tools using the build status API. In the meantime, if you want to use build status now, the best way is to write a simple script to post the results of your builds to the Bitbucket API. Most importantly, if you want to build an integration for Bitbucket Cloud with the CI tool of your choice, get started by taking a look at our documentation. We’re excited to see all the integrations you build in the next few weeks.
Happy coding and shipping!