How to Write Integration Tests for Kafka in NodeJS
Writing integration tests is usually not such a fun task. You need to replicate a real environment and test the connections between the different parts of the system. You cannot rely on mocking as you would in a unit test since you need to simulate the actual environment. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how […]
Open-Source Malabi: How to Use Jaeger Tracing as a Backend
Malabi is an open-source library that helps you write integration tests, by doing 2 things: Collecting data from your tested microservice during the test run Exposes an endpoint to make assertions on this data (with helper functions to call the endpoint). It is important to understand that malabi is an implementation of a new testing […]
How to Use OpenTelemetry to Improve Your Integration Tests
This article is part of the Aspecto Hello World series, where we tackle microservices-related topics for you. Our team searches the web for common issues, then we solve them ourselves and bring you complete how-to guides. Aspecto is an OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing platform for developers and teams of distributed applications. Note: this tutorial assumes you are familiar […]
How To Write Integration Tests Easily Using Trace-Based Testing
This article is part of the Aspecto Hello World series, where we tackle microservices-related topics for you. Our team searches the web for common issues, then we solve them ourselves and bring you complete how-to guides. Aspecto is an OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing platform for developers and teams of distributed applications. Hands-on: What to expect Introduction The motivation […]
Trace-Based Testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet Open Source Malabi
Originally published on the CNCF blog. Written by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto. If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing. And if you use tracing data, you already realize its crucial role in understanding your system and the relationships between system components, […]
