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Extend CI to test exercises against the test runner

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
ci-cd, testing-qa

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or CI entry points. Start by locating the repository's existing CI configuration and how exercises are currently run against the test runner; the work is done when CI reliably checks for inconsistencies between them, with the optional/manual-trigger behavior resolved.

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Description

We've been bitten by this several times now. I think the benefit of catching inconsistencies between test runner and this repository is worth the additional time spent with CI runs. If it turns out to slow us down too much, we could also make it something optional and manually triggered. Currently we have to rely on manually running things in the test runner locally, which is cumbersome and error-prone.

Dominant language
C++
Stars
291
Forks
244
Avg merge
17m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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