A three-step green path labeled Write test, Schedule it, and CI can fail. A dashed branch drops off after step one into a circle marked Never scheduled, which leads to a faint circle marked Invisible red.

Tests that never ran now run

The build was green. That was the annoying part. Somewhere under a film render pipeline I care about, a case that checks how a scene render names its output broke on the default branch and stayed broken for about six hours, until someone ran it by hand. CI never flagged it, because the file that held that case had sat off the continuous-integration checks for a long time. The dashboard was not lying about the jobs it ran. It was silent about the jobs nobody had asked it to run. ...

October 19, 2026 Â· Dave Voyles