Where to Test Your Code

The last 10-15 years in software development have seen a widespread embracing of unit testing. Before the popularity of mobile phones and their apps, most of the organizations I'd worked in gave lip service to automated unit testing, and often even more complex integration/system tests. These days, it seems more and more people embrace unit testing, and I hear about that often from customers and attendees at events. I don't often hear about more comprehensive integration and system testing, I found an interesting article from the Pragmatic Engineer that looked at how the Bluesky social network was built. The article is partially paywalled, but I  have subscribed because of the interesting thoughts they publish. In this article, there was a really interesting part of the article on testing. This is a section titled "Integration tests over unit tests". Read the rest of Where to Test Your Code