Testing large systems with multiple microservices is hard to understand. You need to understand the whole system, all connections, and how the microservices interconnect. Tracing gives you a map of everything, making your system easier to understand. Now imagine being able to make assertions based upon those connections between services.
In this talk, we'll look at trace-based testing using the open-source tool Tracetest. This is becoming a popular method to test systems at an integration or end-to-end level by applying assertions against the data contained in an OpenTelemetry trace. These tests can check your code, they can verify your trace info is added correctly and can verify processes that show up deep in the trace worked as expected.
Paul will demonstrate how Tracetest (part of the CNCF landscape) can be used to verify complex systems using the trace data provided by your observability platform. Join us as we learn more about this powerful new tool.
Video recorded during livestream from the Kubernetes & Cloud Native STL meetup sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io/).
0:00 Welcome to the Meetup!
3:23 What Gives? News and Stuff.
6:56 Feature Presentation
19:31 Demo
1:07:45 Presentation Wrap Up
1:10:57 Closing and Giveaways
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