Automated Testing at Scale

Test code and test tools are as critical to a software application as the application code itself. In practice, we often neglect tests because they add overhead to our development and build times. These slowdowns affect our release cadence and disrupt our short-term schedules (for long-term gains that are hard to see during crunch).

In this Refcard, we will look at the fundamentals of testing in an Agile world and how automated tests can drastically improve the quality of our applications. We will then look at two critical strategies for reducing the execution time of our automated tests to keep our builds lean.