Test Pyramid / Honeycomb / Trophy or Custard Slice?

22 Mar 2026

In recent years I've steered to using the Honeycomb model (made popular from Spotify). Integration testing has become much faster to execute and easier to maintain.
What is your preferred testing model and why?
Lewis Prescott
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I'm an experienced Test Consultant at Hippo Digital, book author of Contract Testing in Action with Manning Publications. I am also a course author of ATDD for Front End on Test Automation University.

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