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Modern Web Development Setup – Auth Service

It’s been about a year since my last post in this series. Things have – surprise surprise – changed quite a lot in a year, but even if I’d like to update the chosen tech, I’ll mostly use what I originally chose. However, I’ll make a couple of major version updates for the Auth service: Node 6.10.2 -> 8.11.2 Restify 4.3.0 -> 7.2.0 The Shippable node image was also updated to 6.5.4 to get Node 8.11.2 support. Due to the node version update the Dockerfiles for all the components were updated as well. Overall Target As mentioned in the introduction[…]

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Modern Web Development Setup – The Testing Environment (2/2)

Test Strategy for the Authentication Service I come from the embedded software world where out-of-the-box solutions rarely exist, and setting up proper acceptance or integration test environments usually requires physical devices and quite a bit of in-house software to get everything working. Compared to that, the web development world is quite different with various available testing services and tools which make the high level system testing possible with much less resources. Based on various web discussion forums and blogs it seems that the testing is seen as a crucial part of the web development, and test automation is highly recommended. One of the[…]

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