Validating functionality during deployment with automated testing
The joy a developer gets from seeing something work for the first time can be all-consuming. With the feeling of satisfaction often comes a drive to build more, do more, and yes, be even more clever with our code.
Modern systems are becoming more complex than ever, relying on multiple microservices, databases, and even third-party systems. The ability to test every single possibility by hand has become near impossible. With this complexity, it’s not difficult to see why automation has become so highly favored. In an ecosystem where code is developed by individual developers and then merged into a larger code base with multiple inflight development efforts, automated testing ensures that the code, when brought together, still functions as intended.
As testing has progressed from manual point-and-click testing into automation, we also find gaps in many QA engineers understanding of the methodologies of development...