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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