Testing Strategies

Testing Strategies

Date of Discussion: October 3, 2024

Overview

Effective testing ensures the reliability and security of the application. We need to implement various types of tests to cover all aspects of the system.

Types of Tests

Unit Tests

• Test individual components or methods.
• Use mocking frameworks like Moq to isolate dependencies.

Integration Tests

• Test the interaction between different components or services.
• Use test databases or in-memory databases.

End-to-End (E2E) Tests

• Simulate user scenarios from start to finish.
• Tools: Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.

Security Tests

• Penetration Testing: Simulate attacks to find vulnerabilities.
• Static Code Analysis: Use tools to detect security issues in code.

Performance Tests

• Assess the application's performance under load.
• Tools: JMeter, k6.

Testing Environments

• Development: For developers to test their code locally.
• Staging: Mirrors the production environment for final testing.
• Production: Live environment; monitor using Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• Automate testing using CI/CD pipelines.
• Tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.

Test Data Management

• Use synthetic data to avoid exposing real user data.
• Anonymize any production data used in testing.

Documentation

• Maintain comprehensive test plans and test case documentation.
• Use tools like TestRail or Azure Test Plans.

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