Test-driven Development for Operations Engineers

In this talk, Thomas Krag and I look at how we use test-driven development for operations work.

This version of the talk was given at CfgMgmtCamp in February 2017.

Transcript

1. Test-driven development for Operations Engineers
2. Thomas Krag Infrastructure Engineer, EclecticIQ
3. Kerim Satirli Infrastructure Engineer, OlinData
4. Test-driven development A history lesson
6. We need to be safe to experiment and make mistakes. We feel good when things work smoothly.
7. We need testing to be sure we are doing no harm. - Kent Beck
8. Trust, but verify.
9. Test-driven development For Software Engineers
13. Test-driven development For Operations Engineers
19. RSpec Test Structure
20. describe 'section' do describe target('selector') do it { should have_something } it { should be_something } end end
21. describe 'YUM repositories' do describe yumrepo('epel') do it { should exist } it { should be_enabled } end end
25. Next steps Get yourself tested
26. https://cltvt.it/tdd-for-ops code examples and slides
27. #tddforops Q&A