Testing Your Automation Code

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Full Day
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)

Cedar Room AB

LISA14: Dev-Ops
M3
Nathen Harvey, Chef
Description: 

This is a hands-on tutorial that will cover the basics that everyone needs to know about how to test your automation code. We’ll start off with a quick introduction to Chef and work our way through writing a fully-tested cookbook or two using linting, unit testing, integration testing, and cross-platform testing.

Hands-on exercises throughout the tutorial will reinforce the material discussed.

Who should attend: 

Anyone responsible for managing infrastructure especially those who are interested in automating the provisioning and management of said infrastructure using state-of-the-art tools and practices.

Take back to work: 

A working code base that includes samples for building out testable infrastructure components.

Topics include: 
  • Introduction to Chef
  • Test-driven Development (TDD) 
  • syntax check - knife cookbook test 
  • linting - foodcritic 
  • unit testing - ChefSpec 
  • integration testing - ServerSpec
Presentation Type: 
Training