maybe this will work

dawn-user/staging

@@ -18,32 +18,7 @@ pipeline {
         }
     }
      
-    stage('test') {
-      steps {
-        sh """
-            dawn-cli test
-        """ 
-      }
-    }
-
-    stage('build') {
-      steps {
-        sh """
-            dawn-cli build-image -p .
-        """ 
-      }
-    }
-
-    stage('update backend services') {
-      steps {
-        git branch: 'main',
-                credentialsId: 'tucker-gitlab-login',
-                url: 'https://gitlab.cs.umd.edu/dawn/go-backend/dawn-cli'
-        sh """
-            dawn-cli deploy
-        """ 
-      }
-    }
+    
 
   }
   post {

vars/testBuildDeploy.groovy

+def call(Map config=[:]) {
+    stage('test') {
+      steps {
+        sh """
+            dawn-cli test
+        """ 
+      }
+    }
+
+    stage('build') {
+      steps {
+        sh """
+            dawn-cli build-image -p .
+        """ 
+      }
+    }
+
+    stage('update backend services') {
+      steps {
+        git branch: 'main',
+                credentialsId: 'tucker-gitlab-login',
+                url: 'https://gitlab.cs.umd.edu/dawn/go-backend/dawn-cli'
+        sh """
+            dawn-cli deploy
+        """ 
+      }
+    }
+}
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