Mar 23, 2023
I suppose we’re going to have to take a poll on this one, but if you had to rank the importance of functional testing vs. load/stress testing in the particular context of distributed app debugging by developers, which is more of a recurring pain for you? We’re all about providing recurring value to development teams and even their QA and SRE colleagues.
So far, every one of our design partners has identified simple, easy, powerful load testing of everything from APIs to collections of microservices as must-haves for finding and fixing cloud native app errors. About 50% have said the same for integration testing. Of course, the answers may vary based on personal preference, and the actual point of testing (i.e. inner vs outer dev loop).
Much of the work we need to do to get to shift left load testing includes functional testing as a prerequisite, so it’s a bit of an academic point, but we’re still curious. What do you think?