In this post, we will outline our usual strategy to get an entire team to quickly fill testing holes – like writing infrastructure tests. Why? Because we find ourselves using this approach frequently at clients. Some context: Qxf2 engineers work with early stage products that neglected writing tests in favour of shipping quickly. This means, we almost always enter situations […]
Getting everyone to write infrastructure tests
Auditing AWS cloud resources with Chef InSpec
Continuing from the preceding blog, ‘Auditing OS Level Resources with Chef InSpec’ which delved into utilizing the Chef InSpec open-source tool for testing individual servers via OS level resources. Now, we embark into the domain of Chef InSpec’s facility in cloud environments. Chef InSpec extends its support to cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Referring to insights shared in […]
Auditing OS level resources with Chef InSpec
Many of Qxf2‘s clients store their Infrastructure as Code. This means that new infrastructure is spun using code and then the application is deployed. So, as testers, we now have to verify that the right infrastructure was spun up and configured correctly. In this post, I will show you how to use Chef InSpec – a tool to write tests […]