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# GitLab tests in the Continuous Integration (CI) context
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## Test suite parallelization on the CI
Our current CI parallelization setup is as follows:
1. The `retrieve-tests-metadata` job in the `prepare` stage ensures we have a
`knapsack/report-master.json` file:
- The `knapsack/report-master.json` file is fetched from the latest `main` pipeline which runs `update-tests-metadata`
(for now it's the 2-hourly scheduled master pipeline), if it's not here we initialize the file with `{}`.
1. Each `[rspec|rspec-ee] [unit|integration|system|geo] n m` job are run with
`knapsack rspec` and should have an evenly distributed share of tests:
- It works because the jobs have access to the `knapsack/report-master.json`
since the "artifacts from all previous stages are passed by default".