Pluggable Test Infrastructures

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Groupon builds a runnable system where a single Gherkin behavior drives multiple implementations so one test, multiple implementations actually exercises web (Selenium/WebDriver), iPhone simulator, and API (curl) flows. They load step-definition folders by profile at runtime to avoid thousands of ifs and keep tests fast by running API checks first — API-first fast fail. The team runs ~1,000 functional tests alongside 17,000 unit tests and uses this as a post-deploy smoke-suite — load profiles at runtime.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:48Pliable test infrastructures
3. 3:56Monolith to microservices
4. 6:28Why pluggable test infrastructures solve real problems
5. 8:15Behavior as test truth
6. 11:26Avoiding test conditionals
7. 13:54Cucumber profiles for flexibility
8. 16:03Rake fastest-first tests
9. 19:23When to use pluggable tests
10. 21:30Consulting project case study
11. 23:59Q&A

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