Audience

• Software Engineers that already have an application in production and are facing issues with regressions and other inconsistencies
  • They may already have unit tests and may want to add integration tests.
• Software Engineers who are about to kick start a new node project.
  • on the look out for a good starting point
  • or already have a template, and want to make sure that the setup is perfect before the team starts working on the business logic

What will they get from this

• They will learn how to set up their first integration test suite
• They will understand best practices about setup and tear down so that they consistency in test execution and non flaky tests are solved for
• Bonus: They will learn how to cache docker images with Github Actions

Side Effects

• They will get an intro to load tests using k6. If they have a postman collection they’ll get a load test out of the box

Assumptions

• They know about docker & containerisation
• they are using some database - mostly SQL (MySQL& PostgreSQL)
• they are using some cache - mostly redis