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Adding environment variable to qa-test job to run only smoke tests

Vishal Patel requested to merge vp/run-only-smoke-test into master

What does this MR do?

This MR passes an environment variable called QA_RSPEC_TAGS, to qa-test job, which takes the input as --tag smoke.

This makes the qa pipeline to only run smoke tests in the instance where the entire suite was running for following tests

  • instance
  • praefect
  • decomposition-single-db
  • decomposition-multiple-db

The following is the time analysis on the qa-run after this change

Time taken before change Time taken before change
51 mins Example Pipeline ~26 mins Example CE QA Pipeline, Example EE QA Pipeline

Related issues

gitlab-org/quality/quality-engineering/team-tasks#1875 (closed)

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Edited by Vishal Patel

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