Loosely coupled systems (a.k.a. distributed systems / microservices) are gaining more and more traction. This implies that there is a growing demand to automatically and reliably ensure that these modular systems play nicely together. The current industry-strength approach for testing the APIs between components is Consumer-Driven Contract Testing (CDCT). Despite its unquestionable improvements over naive integration tests, it still has a number of weaknesses.
This talk points out these weaknesses and shows how we can go beyond CDCT by leveraging modelling in combination with an approach borrowed from formal methods.
Escaping the Enshittification Trap: Systems Thinking for Sustainable Quality
7pm New Zealand time, please check the event time in your time-zone. In this talk, we’ll explore quality as an emergent property of our teams, tools, and processes—not just something we test at the end. We’ll look at challenges like speed to market and...