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Microservices shared end-to-end testing: Which version(s) of other microservices to use?
Introduction I am reading Building Microservices (second edition) by Sam Newman. In chapter 9 the author highlights 2 problems when desiging end-to-end testing for microservices: Which version of the ...
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I'm adding Windows Home support to my client application. How can I perform automated testing?
My team and I publish a client app as part of our solution. It includes a CLI but there are other components as well. Currently most of us develop locally on MacOS, and as part of our CI/CD we have a ...
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Improve CI process by testing against docker image and fail docker build if test fails
Our CI process goes as this cycle (I think it is quite normal), unit test => build docker image => run function test against the image => if test fails remove the failed docker image, figure ...
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How to reset state of exernal services when running Acceptance tests
What are the generic patterns and best practices for resetting state of a database, storage, external service, etc, in Acceptance Tests? I'm struggling with spaghetti, living in acceptance tests. It ...
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Platform that converts Documentation into Unit/Integration Tests? [closed]
I've seen many SO questions around auto-generating unit tests, or documenting unit tests, but I'd like to go the reverse direction. What I'd REALLY like is to have folks (devs, tech writers, etc) ...
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Setting up tests and a continuous integration pipeline in a polyrepo environment
In the past I've mainly worked with monorepos, specifically a Vue.js app that was served by a rails backend. Setting up E2E/integration tests in the CI was simple, because all the required parts were ...
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What is the current definition of continuous integration?
It seems that there are at least two possible definitions of continuous integration: Frequent merging of a codebase to a common codebase (e.g. daily merge to the main branch of a VCS server). ...
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Is the usage of random values in unit testing a good practice? [duplicate]
Having worked in complex solutions that had Unit Tests and Integration Test in the CI/CD pipeline, I recall having a tough time with tests that failed randomly (either due to random values being ...
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Integration Testing Stripe Payments - stripe-mock or Stripe's test mode?
I'm building an automated test suite to integration/feature test my organization's Stripe implementation within a GitLab CI pipeline. We're running Laravel 8 and using phpunit for testing. Within this ...
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How to make the tests run faster?
I develop my current project with a very strict approach to TDD and try to make it as close to Kent Beck's TDD By Example book. So right now I've got code coverage of 93%, with 1290 unit test cases, ...
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Automating performance tests for python code in a CI
My apologies in advance for a question that might seem trivial - I am a mostly solo dev in academic environment and a lot of industry best practices don't necessarily make it here. Several of my ...
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Efficiently updating a common repository used by multiple other repositories
Suppose we have a project consisting of many microservices, all of which use a common library. The common library has been put into a separate git repository, and each microservice is also in its own ...
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Which git workflow for micro-services and testing
I would like to know what best practices exists out there with regard to micro services, CI/CD, testing and Git workflow, especially the way of working given the constraints that a) nothing should ...
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How to address a common problem with automated testing on remote machine
CI/CD options such as bitbucket pipelines and github actions make use of virtual machines called runners. Changes in source code trigger the runners, which in turn trigger a set of commands. The ...
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How do you test that an API wasn't broken by a change?
I have an infrastructure package that multiple projects depend upon. This package is supposed to be a stable API shared by those projects. I want to know if a change made in the package has broken ...
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