From the course: Software Testing: Tools
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Ops/Test: Infrastructure testing
From the course: Software Testing: Tools
Ops/Test: Infrastructure testing
- [Instructor] Infrastructure testing blurs the line between the traditional software tester's role and that of a DevOps engineer. Testing for further edge cases and unforeseeable events means that some specific tooling and practices are called for. Looking into the usually unforeseeable events, such as natural disasters and environmental impacts to a data center, may require specialist disciplines, such as chaos engineering. Planning for something as routine as operating system updates or hardware updates to a server means that your mindset changes from that of traditional validation and verification. Even finding out how your production systems are currently monitored can be beneficial. If your company uses something like Grafana or Prometheus Dashboarding System, this means that you can learn this toolset yourself. Even speaking to your IT team about the potential issues around scaling of your systems and disaster recovery options can shed some light on to how to test your systems…
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