SFScon18 - Kurt Ranalter - Leonhard Holzer - API level regression testing: a field report

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Agile software development with its short life cycles and frequent updates poses high risks with respect to breaking existing functionalities and, as a consequence, may compromise the correctness of an application. We discuss the issues and challenges that arise in the context of the data-intensive business applications developed by abuscom and show how certain risks can be mitigated by our approach to API level regression testing.

API Level Regression
Testing: a Field Report
Leonhard Holzer & Kurt Ranalter
SFScon 2018

Mission statement
• Software company from Bruneck-Brunico
• BI, quality control & production planning tools
• Customers: automotive industry, local business
• Agile, CI/CD: continuous integration & delivery
• One of our aims is to deliver high quality SW
• Testing is crucial to avoid breaking functionality
• But testing is not for free, it costs time and effort
• Apit: our API level regression testing framework
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Example application
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Issues & challenges
• Page dependencies
• PNL & balance → cash flow
• Accruals → PNL & balance
• Input dependencies
• Drilldowns & data aggregation
• Aggregated row ↔ data row
(→) depending on reference column
• TY column ↔ month column
(→) based on month, working days
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Behind the scenes
Post request Get request
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Architecture & testing
• Focus on testing business logic
• End-to-end testing not really an option
• Usual solution: unit & integration tests
• Requires extensive setup and mocking
• Why not make use of REST API?
• Simulate usage as in end-to-end testing
• Business logic considered as black box
• Not a substitute but complementary
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Apit DSL for requests
Post request Apit test case
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How does it work?
• In a nutshell
1. Add framework as library
2. Read and parse config files
3. Run as JUnit5 dynamic tests
• Build pipeline
1. DB/auth as docker container
2. Tests just run as maven goals
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Concluding remarks
• Design decisions & supported features
• Exploit framework to generate necessary test data
• Actual/expected as JSON (WIP: git to track changes)
• Payloads from file instead of coding it into config
• Parameters for testing in multiple environments
• Quick & easy to use but still powerful
• No need for mocking, relatively simple to maintain
• Good integration with respect to our build pipeline
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That‘s it, thanks!
www.abuscom.com
info@abuscom.com
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2023 saw the launch, after a long and well-structured revision and development process, all based on a fruitful collaboration between several departments of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, most of the township in South Tyrol, Informatica Alto Adige (SIAG - Technical partner) and the Consortium of Municipalities of the Province of Bolzano, of the new version of the integrated geographic data management system IGis Maps. In use for years in South Tyrol, has in the Consortium one of its most enthusiastic contributors and supporters. The very first version was released about eight years ago and its implementation was based on the idea of creating a multi-purpose GIS management system that could support different types of users, that was highly customizable, and, above all, that could be widely shared among the various management entities, both public and private, present within our territory. After years of use and ad-hoc developments, we can finally present the new version of the IGis Maps system, which incorporates all the technical and technological improvements we realized the system needed. It was not just a major update together with new functionalities combined inside the previous software structure, but a true re-engineering that led, among other things, to a new and more efficient user interface, a major advancement regarding the internal security, an optimization and improvement of the entire editing section as well as an optimization of the section regarding the automatic geo-processes. A mobile version is currently under development to better support any field activities, for which a very powerful option will be included, the possibility of creating special work sessions in off-line mode so as to be able to operate even in areas without a proper cellular line network coverage. Other very important peculiarities concern that the system is developed using a totally free software code and infrastructure, that a detailed documentation has been produced to ensure sustainability to any further future evolution, even in case of technical partner turnover, and finally, that by taking advantage of the high standards and levels of security access can be guaranteed to any type of user. From professional users, through dedicated access and qualifications or, using the ordinary SPID, to the private citizen. We will show examples of how different types of users and stakeholders now permanently use the system for the management of a variety of tasks related to their activities, and how it was possible to customize IGis Maps to create visualization and data management contexts that best meet their needs. We will also present a related project concerning the updating and the correction of the new technical basal cartography, built upon the new Basic Core specification, achieved through the automatic conversion implemented by the SIAG team starting from the previous National Core cartography. With the new IGis Maps it was possible to create an a

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South Tyrol Free Software Conference

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