Testing Hyperpyramid (David Denton)

We all know that testing is an important factor in software development.

But.

What if your tests could also work for you in dimensions that you didn’t even know existed? What if they could give you superpowers?

Superpowers like easily running an entire bank on a single developer workstation, generating visual documentation of all the interactions across your fleet of microservices with a simple test plugin, or building reusable infrastructure which allow you to test your entire codebase at the unit, integration or end-to-end level.

Outline of the session:

- The testing pyramid vs the testing hyperpyramid
- What makes a good test?
- Techniques for exploiting the hyperpyramid
- Fast testing from the bottom up
- Tests as Documentation as Visualisation

ABOUT DAVID

Highly experienced Engineering Lead specialising in TDD, software craft, debt-resolving, mentoring and straight talking.

Particularly specialised with ContinuousDeployment solutions: JVM, JS & a quick study in others. Everything-as-code automation. Build-craft. Refactoring master. Legacy-code cleaner.

International speaker. Mentor, Co-founder of Monopolis (https://monopolis.cloud). Co-creator of the popular http4k platform (http://http4k.org) and recognised Kotlin Google Developer Expert.

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