Tag: Testing
Is graybox testing a myth?
The web is awash with advice advocating "gray box testing" as a solution to problems that testers face. However, when it comes to actually implementing one you are more likely to end up with a monstrosity. Charles Lowell explains why this happens and what you can do about it.
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Charles Lowell
February 4, 2025
Ingestion tests in Backstage Part 2: Safely refactoring an LDAP integration
To test whether the Backstage is setting up the Catalog properly, you must start a Backstage server, wait for a while, and assert. This feat is easier said than done. Here is part 2 in which Charles will guide you through it in this article.
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December 5, 2022
Testing Backstage Catalog's ingestion
To test whether the Backstage is setting up the Catalog properly, you must start a Backstage server, wait for a while, and assert. This feat is easier said than done, but Charles will guide you through it in this article.
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March 24, 2022
Backstage tutorial: plugin integration tests with Cypress + Interactors
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up integration tests for your Backstage plugins using Material UI Interactors
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Jorge Lainfiesta
March 3, 2022
Simplified local development and testing with Auth0 simulation
Auth0 can be difficult to manage in local development and within testing environments such as CI/CD pipelines. An Auth0 simulator can save you from branching your code or maintaining mocks in your tests.
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Paul Cowan
January 13, 2022
Interactors: the design systems testing ally
Components from a design system make building UIs easy. It should be just as easy to test them. Interactors enable more robust tests for component-based UIs, and improve component libraries' maintainability.
→ Read ArticleCharles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty
August 4, 2021
There and Back Again: Testing and Stack Upgrades
Upgrading your application stack to new major versions can be terrifying, especially when you have a massive application with 75 developers working on features non-stop. However, a good testing strategy gives you confidence to make bold moves that take your organization to heretofore unexplored lands.
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Taras Mankovski
February 18, 2021
The Lesson of BigTest Interactors: never write a flaky test again!
To prevent flaky tests, BigTest introduces the Interactor API, designed around the lessons learned in Capybara. This article introduces the benefits of Interactors in BigTest and how to use them to write reliable tests.
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Jonas Niklas
July 16, 2020
The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 2: Reliability
Flakiness: one of the biggest pain-points of any test suite. From app complexity to incident management, we explore some of the most common causes of unreliable tests.
→ Read ArticleRobbie Pitts, Taras Mankovski, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Charles Lowell, Jorge Lainfiesta
April 30, 2020
The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 1: Speed
Speed, reliability, and relevance constitute the mains pillars of a robust testing strategy. The faster a test suite can diagnose an issue in its application, the more value it renders. In this article, we navigate through the most significant causes of slow tests and suggest ideas to deal with them.
→ Read ArticleCharles Lowell, Robbie Pitts, Taras Mankovski, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Jorge Lainfiesta
April 6, 2020
Big Testing in React
When we write and develop our applications, it's with the intent that somebody will use it. We write tests so we can be assured that everything in our app works as expected and is bug free. But how confident are you in your tests?
→ Read ArticleWil Wilsman
June 13, 2018