Testing Web APIs

12 Testing in production

This chapter covers

• What testing in production is
• The value of testing in production as part of a testing strategy
• How to identify what to track in production
• Setting up testing in production
• Alternative ways to leverage testing in production

When Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011, the strategy and mindset he proposed influenced various industries, including software development. The center of Eric’s thesis is that we want to ensure that we’re delivering something of quality with as minimal waste as possible. As he puts it in a blog post on linkedin.com (http://mng.bz/xMO8),

“The problem is that quality is really in the eye of the beholder. For a for-profit company, quality is defined by what the customer wants. ...