Tag: integration testing

Integration Testing: MockServer

Post author By Sam French
Post date August 6, 2020
Categories In testing, tools
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The Need to Mock External Resources When designing comprehensive integration tests to run in a test environment, one common blocker is the need to mock the behavior of an external API that is outside the control of your team. Sometimes external vendors do not maintain a working test environment for us to test our code […]

Getting Real-World Test Data from Production

Post author By Sam French
Post date July 25, 2020
Categories In design, testing
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Why? To responsibly test changes before deploying them to production, we need a test environment that behaves, in as many aspects as possible, the same way as our production environment does. Integration tests should be running in an environment that is as close to production as possible. We want the ability to reproduce production issues […]