Glossary

artifact

An artifact is a piece of data generated by a step that other steps can consumer.

step

A step represent an action or an intention that needs to happen as part of a pipeline. This is similar to a tox environment, a nox session, or a make target.

Examples of steps could be build, lint, format.

step group

A step that does nothing by itself but acts as a proxy for multiple steps.

Examples could be a pytest step, that depends on pytest[3.9] and pytest[3.10].