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A set of principles, practices, idioms, and strategies pertaining to automated software testing and its adoption
http://pages.18f.gov/automated-testing-playbook
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Infrastructure testing? #5

Open ozzyjohnson opened 9 years ago

ozzyjohnson commented 9 years ago

I've been working on some tests for our AMIs + services using Serverspec and looking at Kitchen / BATS and others in conjunction with Packer. I'd think the results would have a place here? If so, is here a particular style I should think about? A guide, examples, templates etc?

Thanks.

mbland commented 9 years ago

Fan-freaking-tastic! I'm particularly interested in setting up virtualized testing environments, though I have zero experience.

I'd say just try to fit the style that's apparent here. In the short term, if you want to post a draft as a Google Doc, or in the wiki of this repo (like @shawnbot did with his "Frontend Testing" article), we can then figure out where it fits, and how.

Also, there may be another, better potential home for it. I'm kicking around the idea of starting a separate document repo, an "Automated Testing Handbook", that goes into deep technical detail for specific scenarios. In other words, I see this document as being good for general, high-level advice; the Handbook would be good for really digging into the details.

shawnbot commented 9 years ago

Yeah, the handbook would probably be a better home for my wiki page.