Microservices Testing Strategies

Friday, 1:30 PM

Microservice architectures place great emphasis on autonomous product teams that develop and deploy equally autonomous services using decentralized release management, testing, and deployment strategies. I don’t have to wait on you to deploy my service, and you don’t have to wait on me. And yet the complexity associated with managing these large, distributed systems seems like it would demand even greater discipline and centralized coordination of testing activities. Fortunately, while greater discipline is in fact required, we don’t require the centralized coordination that would seem to destroy many of the benefits of embracing microservices. In this session will examine principles and practices that will help us develop an effective testing strategy for microservices.

Topics will include:

  • who moved my trust boundary?
  • expressing API’s as versioned contracts
  • what’s in a contract? the good, the bad, and the ugly
  • leveraging consumer-driven contracts
  • exploratory testing for risk discovery
  • recovery OVER prevention
  • dogfooding

About Matt Stine

Matt Stine

Matt is a technical product manager at Pivotal. He is a 15 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with experience spanning numerous business domains. He is the author of recently published Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures from O’Reilly, available as a free e-book download.

Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms, in an attempt to find the perfect storm of techniques that will allow corporate IT departments to not only function like startup companies, but also create software that delights users while maintaining a high degree of conceptual integrity. His current focus is driving Pivotal’s solutions around supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to OSCON to YOW!, is a five-year member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and serves as Technical Editor of NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis Java User Group.

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