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9 Integration testing

This chapter covers

• Converting user requirements to descriptive tests
• Writing tests that follow a behavior-driven design pattern
• Integrating external dependencies into tests using containers

You are sitting in the conference room with your project manager, a QA lead, an Ops lead, and the CEO. The project manager stands at the front of the room and starts the presentation.

“It’s called a strangler application. The name ‘strangler application’ comes from the strangler fig tree, which builds itself around a host tree until the host tree dies. As sad as it sounds, we want to eventually sunset our old application. We feel our application has been tested enough to start rolling it out to a select group of customers. The new ...