Succeed action when irrelevant tests are not run.

Instead of not running an action at all when relevant files are unchanged, run the action but skip the actual tests. This allows required checks to succees.

.github/workflows/backend-test.yml

@@ -13,15 +13,31 @@ on:
       - 'hotfix/**'
       - 'release/**'
       - 'dependabot/**'
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'frontend/**'
-      - '**.md'
 
 jobs:
   backend-test:
     name: Test Backend
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Run backend tests
-      run: sudo mkdir -p /ci-data && sudo docker-compose --env-file .env-ci run backend pytest
+      - name: Check if files have been changed in the backend
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+        id: backend-changed
+        with:
+          result-encoding: string
+          script: |
+            const result = await github.pulls.listFiles({
+              owner: context.payload.repository.owner.login,
+              repo: context.payload.repository.name,
+              pull_number: context.payload.number,
+              per_page: 100
+            })
+            const backendChanged = result.data.filter(f => f.filename.startsWith("backend/") || f.filename.startsWith(".github") || f.filename.startsWith("docker-compose") || f.filename.startsWith(".env-ci")).length > 0
+            console.log("backend changed: ", backendChanged)
+            return backendChanged
+
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        if: ${{ steps.backend-changed.outputs.result == 'true' }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Run backend tests
+        run: sudo mkdir -p /ci-data && sudo docker-compose --env-file .env-ci run backend pytest

.github/workflows/frontend-test.yml

@@ -13,15 +13,31 @@ on:
       - 'hotfix/**'
       - 'release/**'
       - 'dependabot/**'
-    paths-ignore:
-      - 'backend/**'
-      - '**.md'
 
 jobs:
   frontend-test:
     name: Test Frontend
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Run frontend tests
-      run: sudo docker-compose --env-file .env-ci run frontend yarn test
+      - name: Check if files have been changed in the frontend
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+        id: frontend-changed
+        with:
+          result-encoding: string
+          script: |
+            const result = await github.pulls.listFiles({
+              owner: context.payload.repository.owner.login,
+              repo: context.payload.repository.name,
+              pull_number: context.payload.number,
+              per_page: 100
+            })
+            const frontendChanged = result.data.filter(f => f.filename.startsWith("frontend/") || f.filename.startsWith(".github") || f.filename.startsWith("docker-compose")  || f.filename.startsWith(".env-ci")).length > 0
+            console.log("Frontend changed: ", frontendChanged)
+            return frontendChanged
+
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        if: ${{ steps.frontend-changed.outputs.result == 'true' }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Run frontend tests
+        run: sudo docker-compose --env-file .env-ci run frontend yarn test