Ask HN: How does your team test web services?

3 points by creichert 9 years ago | 3 comments

I'm interested in learning about how teams tests and collaborate QA for the web services they build.

- does your team have automated tests (post-deploy, monitoring)?

- what tools does your team use? (specifically testing APIs and web apps)

- what's the process when a test fails?

- how do you manage testing on a dev environment until a feature is in production?

ejcx 9 years ago |

Monitoring - CPU Usage, HTTP Response codes, Login Failures, Login Successes, Ratelimit events.

Testing - Unit tests, Integration tests, nothing fancy. PHPUnit or whatever framework you want.

All hooked in to CI. Tests should always pass. If you have a flapping test it should be fixed.

We have docker containers that spin up our production environment locally, so we can test things like nginx config changes, database migrates, configuration changes, nginx changes, etc.

creichert 9 years ago | |

Nice, thanks for the reply.

You mention CI so I'm curious. Do you have an automated continuous delivery process? Does testing fit into that (e.g. integration testing staging or dev services after deployments)?

ejcx 9 years ago | | |

The difference between what we have and continuous deployment is not that big. We don't have continuous deployment, but we could. Things are pushed to staging automatically, but to production it is not.