Exploring check suites and checks

In GitHub, checks and check suites are essential to continuous integration / deployment (CI/CD). They provide valuable feedback on the status of code commits, pull requests, and workflows, helping developers ensure the quality and correctness of their code base used to determine whether a change is fit to move into production.

Checks are the children of a check suite and provide information, including the current state of a task. A check suite can contain one or more checks and contextual information around the actor of the check runner. Let’s investigate this in more detail.

What are checks?

In GitHub, checks are individual verifications performed by various CI/CD systems, such as GitHub Actions, Travis CI, CircleCI, and so on, or third-party integrations, to evaluate the quality and correctness of code changes. Checks are associated with specific commits, pull requests, or branches, and they help automate the code review process and...