Testing in Practice

Show Date: May 22, 2013

Foodcritic, knife cookbook test, Chefspec, minitest chef handler, and cucumber chef. So many tools but how are these actually used in practice?

Listen in on the panel discussion of testing in practice.

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Introductions
Chef News
What is testing?
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Acceptance Testing
- Regression Testing
The evolution of testing
Syntax of linting tools
- Foodcritic
Standardizing Workflows
Vagrant
Tools
chefspec
- The converge in chefspec vs normal converge
- Ruby blocks and bash blocks
- Travis CI
- Stubbing search calls
Mocks and Stubs
- Martin Fowler: Mocks Aren’t Stubs
serverspec
Test Kitchen
- bats
- busser
IRC Question: Test Kitchen currently uses Chef solo. Is there a way to get it to use chef-client?
Load Balancers and Jenkins Servers
- cucumber-chef
The concept of how a driver works and their role in Test Kitchen
- Mixing and matching drivers
A first foray into testing: where to start?
- Code School - Testing with RSpec
CI Methods of testing
- Jenkins CI
When will Test Kitchen 1.0 be ready?

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