Ever get confused about what exactly is meant when people talk about #UnitTests, #IntegrationTests, #RegressionTests, and #SmokeTests? I wrote a little something about them to, hopefully, explain the differences and overlap: https://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/on-unit-integration-regression-tests-and-terminology/

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On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology - Cassandra HL

    This post is inspired by several conversations I’ve had over the years, as well as my own musings about testing targets, testing intentions, and terminology.  I’ve noticed that there’s often confusion and a great effort to give different types of tests (or those perceived as such) different names, and having only one name […]

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Not so long ago we published an article about using Testcontainers for emulating external dependencies such as a database and cache for the purpose of backend integration tests. The article also…

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Engineering manager: I want #integrationtests to run on the app deployed on #Cloud infra for each #GitHub PR ✅

Me, thinking it's a no-brainer: sure thing! 🤦‍♂️

Me, after 85 runs: I have content for my next blog post/talk 😅

https://dev.to/slsbytheodo/blazing-fast-ci-for-serverless-integration-tests-3n4f - what if we could have multiple warm #cloud environments and "check-out" an environment for the #IntegrationTests? Then we don't need to start from scratch. We can evolve the environment for the #tests. Nice thought experiment https://www.linkedin.com/in/corentin-doue.
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Testing is a crucial activity to guarantee the software keeps working after fixing a bug or adding a new feature.

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The Integration Test aims to verify the interaction between different components, modules, or systems to ensure they function correctly together as a unified whole.

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WARNING - Unit Testing is not enough for your microservices

Many projects are adopting unit testing more frequently and this is awesome, but is it enough for a microservice architecture? Let's see why unit tests are not enough and what we can do to solve this problem.

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