In what order should the CI/CD pipeline stages be executed: build, unit tests, integration tests, linting, static code analysis, deployment?

Typical order of CI/CD pipeline stages:

1. Linting — checking code for style and simple errors.
2. Static code analysis — searching for potential bugs and vulnerabilities without running the code.
3. Build — compiling and preparing artifacts.
4. Unit tests — testing individual modules/functions.
5. Integration tests — testing the interaction of components.
6. Deployment — deploying the application to a test or production environment.

This order ensures early detection of errors (linting, static analysis), followed by verifying code functionality (tests), and only after successful completion of all stages — deployment.