Testing tools and frameworks are infinitely useful when planning cloud
architecture for many reasons.
“The confidence of a well-tested codebase brings the ability to deploy
quickly, and often. Testing infrastructure assures that incremental changes
to the codebase do not affect the overall application performance,” said
Omid Rahmat, president, Burnside Digital.
One of the Rahmat’s favorite testing tools is rspec, used for ruby
applications. Rahmat said it takes a "behavior-driven" approach to testing.
“We follow the best practices of writing tests that explain what our code
should do before writing it. This gives us a clear path to follow to
implement solutions with great confidence and far fewer defects. Having that
test and seeing it pass lets us know that we have written features to
specification.”
Other popular testing tools include:
SoapUI. According to Soap... (more)