Testing Microservices When the Stakes Are High

17th October 2015

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Anne-Marie Charrett

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Talk Description

Imagine a financial system that's responsible for transacting thousands of dollars per second, where a 30-second downtime means significant transaction loss not only to us but to our merchants. The key players are performance, reliability and security. Now imagine that network distributed across multiple independent artifacts, where each artifact consists of its own Virtual Machine, database schema and application.

Next imagine rolling this out on a fortnightly basis.

How would you test this? What are the challenges you might face?

The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. In this masterclass, we’ll look at what microservices are, the traditional ways that people talk of testing microservices and how we do it differently.

What you’ll learn

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

Define what microservices are
Compare monoliths with microservices
Identify challenges of testing microservices
Recognise the importance of diversifying your test strategies when testing microservices

Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie Charrett is a software tester, trainer and coach with a reputation of excellence and passion for Quality and the craft of software testing.

An electronic engineer by trade, software testing chose her when she started testing protocols against European standards.

Anne-Marie advocates a whole team approach to Quality. She sees software testing as a skilled activity that many might perform. She trains & coaches teams to help embrace this approach to quality with a contextual mindset.

In the past, Anne-Marie has developed software testing courses and lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney, and ran the Sydney Testers Meetup.

Anne-Marie is available for work through her company Testing Times where she offers consulting, training and coaching services.