Can AWS CodePipeline track multiple feature branches and run tests on each?

Question

With Bitbucket and Bamboo, I was able to have Bamboo track every feature branch and run tests on each so that, at the pull request time, I was able to see if the branch passed its unit tests.

With AWS CodePipeline, I can't tell if I am able to track each feature branch and have tests run on them before merging.

Is this possible? If so, please point me to documentation.

Answer 1

I was looking for a solution to exactly this problem. Eventually I settled on having a CodeBuild, which can be triggered off of a branch regex, begin the pipeline by pushing an archive to a specific S3 key. In my case, I also had that CodeBuild do my full build/test process, but you could also configure the CodeBuild to only pull the code and push it the the S3 key that triggers your CodePipeline.

Here's part of an example CodeBuild config matching 2 branches:

Then I set the CodeBuild artifact to go to a single key in a single bucket.

Then I setup a CodePipeline with an Amazon S3 source pointing to the same key/bucket.