Run jobs in parallel, fail the long job if a short one has failed | Feature Requests

Run jobs in parallel, fail the long job if a short one has failed

Denis Pisarev

I have 4 jobs: 3 pre-test jobs, they take 1-2 minutes each and checking things like mergeability, lint, or audit.
4th job is a building one and it takes 10 min to complete. I want it to be launched as early as possible, but stopped if one of pre-test jobs failed.
CCI-I-1035

May 15, 2019

Sebastian Lerner

Hi folks, we just launched in preview something similar to what's described in the merged post Dan Taub mentioned below.
https://circleci.com/docs/fail-fast/
It lets you configure testing jobs to fail shortly after the first test failure instead of running all tests to completion and is compatible with CircleCI's feature that lets you parallelize execution tests (test splitting). 
When one parallel run encounters a test failure, we'll effectively halt all other parallel runs helping you save time & optimize credit usage.

Merged in a post:

For parallel jobs, a failure in one should cancel the other parallel jobs

Dan Taub

There should be an option to fail fast -- that is, if one of my tests fails in 1 of 8 parallel jobs, I shouldn't have to wait for the other 8 to fail before receiving the failure notification

CCI-I-365

September 3, 2020

Petter S

Would be quite useful.