What does CI/CD mean in the context of Flutter app development, and what benefits does automating the build, test, and deployment process actually provide to a team?

CI/CD stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery, referring to the practice of automatically building, testing, and often deploying an application every time new code changes are pushed, rather than performing these steps manually by hand, and for a Flutter team this typically means automatically running the full test suite and building the app whenever a developer submits a pull request, which catches bugs and mistakes far earlier, ensures consistent build results regardless of which individual developer's machine originally created them, and significantly reduces the manual effort needed to actually produce a distributable app build.

# GitHub Actions workflow trigger
on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]