Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation

Integration testing

With integration testing, your tests move into testing beyond your code. With ChefSpec, we looked at how to verify that a recipe was executing statements as expected. However, unit testing has its limits; integration testing completes the picture by testing cookbooks in conjunction with real hosts that run the desired operating system(s):

This means testing cookbooks from the outside rather than from the inside, where a unit test provides very narrow testing of code inside of cookbooks, integration tests perform deployment of your cookbooks in a test-specific environment and then execute probes to validate that the system is in ...