Automated tests are only one example of a gating mechanism. When their quality is high enough, they can guarantee the code works according to design. But there's still a difference between code that works correctly and good code. As you've learned from this book so far, code can be considered good if it fulfills several values. Being functionally correct is just one of them.
There are other tools that can help achieve the desired standard of your code base. Some of them have been covered in previous chapters, so we won't go into the details. Keep in mind that using linters, code formatters, and static analysis in your CI/CD pipeline is a great practice. While static analysis can act as a gating mechanism, you can apply linting and formatting to each commit that enters the central repository to make it consistent with the rest of the code base. You will find more on linters and formatters in the appendix.
Ideally, this mechanism will only have...
