2022-04-04 PSG Testing Roundtable

Discussion Questions

• How valuable a metric is coverage?

• What do you see as the primary purpose of

  • unit tests?

  • integration?

  • e2e?

  • manual/local?

• What is your favorite test library/trick that you think more of edX should know about?

• Absent coverage requirements, what kinds of code trigger your “I need a test for this” spidey-sense?

• What triggers your “this is a bad test” spidey-sense?

• What have you found especially difficult to test?

• How do we know if we are over-testing?

• With us no longer running most browser automation tests, do we need to compensate with more of some other kind of tests? (Pact, JS, etc.)

• Speaking of Pact (consumer-based contract testing framework), does anyone understand it?

• How do you avoid duplicating your function code/logic in your tests?