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diff --git a/doc/development/testing_guide/end_to_end/index.md b/doc/development/testing_guide/end_to_end/index.md index c00be77ce8c..f6a2f642274 100644 --- a/doc/development/testing_guide/end_to_end/index.md +++ b/doc/development/testing_guide/end_to_end/index.md @@ -7,6 +7,24 @@ as expected across the entire software stack and architecture, including integration of all micro-services and components that are supposed to work together. +## Branch naming + +If your contribution contains **only** changes under the +[`qa/` folder](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/qa), you can +speed up the CI process by following some branch naming conventions. You have +three choices: + +| Branch name | Valid example | +|:----------------------|:-----------------------------| +| Starting with `qa/` | `qa/new-oauth-login-test` | +| Starting with `qa-` | `qa-new-oauth-login-test` | +| Ending in `-qa` | `123-new-oauth-login-test-qa` | + +If your branch name matches any of the above, it will run only the QA-related +jobs. +If it does not, the whole application test suite will run (including QA-related +jobs). + ## How do we test GitLab? We use [Omnibus GitLab][omnibus-gitlab] to build GitLab packages and then we |