Delivering value to the client as well as early and frequent feedback are at the heart of agile. Practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery are key to reaching these objectives during software development.
The concept of continuous delivery can be understood as a set of automated steps that aim to take changes made during development to production as soon as possible, minimizing risks during implantation and guaranteeing the quality on each deployment. To deliver software in a continuous manner, development teams must be capable of, among other things, automating the execution of distinct sets of tests that verify the collaboration between various services.
In this talk, we will discuss existing patterns to test the interaction between services and how to enable the automation and repeatability of integration tests in different environments when our application depends on services that are developed and managed by external teams. Thus, bringing us a step closer to continuous delivery.
