This talk discusses why Infrastructure testing is as important as testing the application code. It talks about the domains which need to be kept in mind while testing the infrastructure. It was delivered by Siddharth Kulkarni (@sid_thinketh) and myself at VodQA Pune 2015.

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2. FROM QA TO DEV”QA”OPS !
Yahya Poonawala @meetykp
Siddharth Kulkarni @sid_thinketh

3. THE INFRASTRUCTURE
is
CODE
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WITHOUT IAC
(GAMING COMPANY)
WITH IAC
(AMAZON)
▪ 40 People Involved
▪ Once A Month Deployment
▪ 2 Hours Downtime
▪ Deployment To 60 Servers
▪ Everything Manual
▪ Single Person Can Deploy
▪ Deployment every 11.6 secs
▪ No Downtime
▪ Deployment to 30k servers
▪ Everything automated

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6. IN A NUTSHELL…
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➢ Faster time to market
➢ Increased organizational agility
➢ Higher quality

7. WHY DO WE NEED TO TEST OUR INFRASTRUCTURE?
➢ High confidence in changes
➢ Quick and immediate feedback
➢ Shorter release cycle for applications
➢ Maintain sanity of the infrastructure
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9. WHAT DO WE NEED TO
TEST??
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10. CASE STUDY
REQUIREMENTS
➢ Customer is able to visit the site and browse the products
available.
➢ The website should be available 24*7 and should be able to
sustain high traffic.
➢ Products should not be accessible before the launch date.
➢ We want to launch new features on a regular basis.
➢ The administrators should have detailed knowledge of the health
of the system and issues should be resolvable quickly.
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11. THINK ABOUT THESE DOMAINS!!
! SERVERS AND SERVICES
! NETWORK CONNECTIONS
! DATABASE SETUP
! DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY
! HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE
! USER MANAGEMENT
! LOGGING AND MONITORING SETUP
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UNIT TESTS

14. INTEGRATION TESTS
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15. ACCEPTANCE TESTS
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22. IDEAL TEST PYRAMID
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COURTESY : ANAND BAGMAR

23. WHAT DOES MY INFRA TESTING
PYRAMID LOOK LIKE??
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UNIT TESTS
INTEGRATION TESTS
ACCEPTANCE
TESTS
MANUAL TESTING

24. WHAT DO WE WANT IT
TO LOOK LIKE??

25. AND THE FUTURE…
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26. REFERENCES
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef :
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030973.do
Infrastructure as Code : (To be released Soon)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039297.do
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27. THANK YOU
yahya.poonawala@gmail.com
sidd.kulk@gmail.com