Testing Below the Application

21 Oct 2016
  • Locked
Ash Winter's profile
Ash Winter

Staff Quality Engineer

Testing Below the Application thumbnail
Talk Description
How often have you found a problem with your application which is directly related to the infrastructure it is deployed upon? How often have you found a problem and not known? Testing is beginning to reach new depths. In Ash's experience, saying that infrastructure needed to be tested used to trigger disbelieving looks in the Ops team's faces, but less so now. The lines between infrastructure and code are blurring, so let's update our skills and outlook accordingly. 

In this Masterclass, Ash will describe why it's important to apply a testing mindset to infrastructure and how to determine what to test and how. He'll then share useful tools and demonstrate how you can explore and programmatically check your infrastructure pre-deployment.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

  • Define what the of an application infrastructure is
  • List the barriers to testing the infrastructure
  • Implement tools and strategies to test the infrastructure of your app
Ash Winter
Staff Quality Engineer
He/Him

An experienced, community focused tester. Loves training, mentoring and helping teams with testability. Co-organiser: Leeds Testing Atelier, co-author: Team Guide to Software Testability.

Ash Winter
Staff Quality Engineer
He/Him

An experienced, community focused tester. Loves training, mentoring and helping teams with testability. Co-organiser: Leeds Testing Atelier, co-author: Team Guide to Software Testability.

Sign in to comment
Suggested Content
Explore MoT
RiskStorming: Artificial Intelligence image
RiskStorming; Artificial Intelligence is a strategy tool that helps your team to not only identify high value risks, but also set up a plan on how to deal
Improving Your Testing Through Operability image
Gain the tools you need to become an operability advocate. Making your testing even more awesome along the way!
This Week in Quality image
Debrief the week in Quality via a community radio show hosted by Simon Tomes and members of the community
Subscribe to our newsletter
We'll keep you up to date on all the testing trends.