Comment by strenholme

Well, the place I run my CI tests is on a VMware virtual machine, e.g.

  #!/bin/bash -e
  git clone https://git.example.com/myrepo
  cd myrepo
  sh do.tests

If the tests are automated enough to run with every Git checkout, they can be easily enough be run by hand too.

The real world script I use is a little more complicated, because the code base in question is two decades old so I need to make some changes to how the code looks to the tests so that the tests can run.

I once worked for a company which had a series of tests which took eight to ten hours to run. Running those tests with every single Git checkin was out of the question; we instead used cron to run the tests every night.