🏫References and resources

Sharing is caring, and this is what I could remember.

Books

Online books

• Better APIs

Physical books

• Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (2009)

• Kent Beck: Test-Driven Development: By Example (2002)

• Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009)

• Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin: More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014)

• Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (1999)

• Matt Weisfeld: The Object-Oriented Thought Process (2000)

• Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Don Roberts: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (1999)

• Forsgren, Humble, and Kim: Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (2018)

• Jez Humble & David Farley: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (2010)

• Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Richard Helm: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994)

• Robert C. Martin: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (2007)

• Robert C. Martin: The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (2011)

• Robert C. Martin: Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics (2021)

• Robert C. Martin: Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (2017)

• Robert C. Martin: Clean Agile: Back to Basics (2019)

Code

• Building a Production Ready API (demonstration)

• Testable Systems Starter

• Better APIs workshop: Enhancing an API for quality, stability, and observability

• Microservices testing workshop

• ACME Corp. Potted Plants Web Shop: AWS microservices demo

• Domain Driven Microservices on AWS in Practice

Tools

As the book itself, my focus is mostly from the eyes of a Node/TypeScript developer with some familiarity of the .NET Core universe.

Unit testing

• Jest

• AVA

• XUnit

End-to-end testing (UI)

• Playwright

• Cypress

• CodeceptJS

• Puppeteer

Cross browser testing

• Lambdatest

• BrowserStack

BDD testing

• Cucumber

Front end specific tooling

• React Testing Library

• webhint

Static code analysis (etc.)

• Prettier

• ESLint

• Roslyn

Online (primary)

• DeepSource

• Codacy

• Codiga

• Embold

• SonarCloud

Security focus

• Snyk

• Checkov

• trivy

Integration testing

• Insomnia for manual work and Inso for CI/CLI

• Postman for manual work and Newman for CI/CLI

API mocking

• MSW

• Mockachino

AWS mocking

• aws-sdk-mock

Contract testing

• Pact

• TripleCheck

Synthetic testing

• CloudWatch Canaries

• Checkly

Load or performance testing

• k6

• Artillery

• Measuring response times with Bash

Chaos testing

• AWS Fault Injection Simulator

• Gremlin

• failure-lambda

Websites

• Google DevOps

• DORA research program

• Google Testing Blog

• Understand Legacy Code

• JavaScript Testing Best Practices

Articles

Testing

• Microsoft Azure DevOps: Shift testing left with unit tests

• Testing and debugging serverless applications

• Serverless Framework: Testing

• Testing serverless apps has never been easier!

• Serverless Testing: Adapt or Cry

• Testing in Production, the safe way

• Testing Microservices, the sane way

• Testing in Production: the hard parts

• Mocks Aren't Stubs

• Mockists Are Dead. Long Live Classicists.

• UnitTest

• TTDD - Tautological Test Driven Development (Anti Pattern)

• How deep are your unit tests?

• Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

• A quick way to add tests when code has database or HTTP calls

• Test Flakiness - One of the main challenges of automated testing

• Stop mocking fetch

• Test Doubles — Fakes, Mocks and Stubs

• Contract-based testing for FaaS

• Downside to functions everywhere

• The serverless approach to testing is different and may actually be easier

• A Comprehensive Guide to Contract Testing APIs in a Service Oriented Architecture

• Serverless Testing in Production

• My unit testing epiphany

• Production-Readiness Checklist, by Susan Fowler

• Evaluate Your Microservice, by Susan Fowler

• Testing Event-Driven systems

• Contracts, Addressing, and APIs for Microservices

• Consumer-driven Contract Testing using Postman

• Using curl for API testing

• The only 3 steps you need to mock an API call in Jest

Trunk-based development

• DevOps tech: Trunk-based development

• Trunk-Based Development

• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches

• Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)

• Straight to Prod

Deployment

• The Why and How You Should Test in Production

• Testing in Production: rethinking the conventional deployment pipeline

• Why you should use temporary stacks when you do serverless

• Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD

• Deployment Strategies Defined

• There can be only one (environment): Production

Feature flags

• Four Shades of Progressive Delivery

• Coding with Feature Flags: How-to Guide and Best Practices

• Progressive Delivery

• Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags)

• Feature Flag Testing—Strategies & Example Tests

• Testing in Production to Stay Safe and Sensible

• What Is Progressive Delivery All About?

• Testing in Production to Stay Safe and Sensible