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Quality Gate - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A quality gate defines the bar a build must clear before it can advance.

A quality gate is a set of pass or fail conditions, such as minimum test coverage, no failing tests, or acceptable code-quality metrics, that a build must satisfy to move forward.

A quality gate defines the bar a build must clear before it can advance.

In CI

A quality gate is enforced as a pipeline job that fails when any threshold is missed, so substandard changes cannot merge or deploy.

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