Documentation

This repository is a collection of technical resources for software and systems engineers.

Contents

Git: the source control tool

GPG: the public key encryption utility

SSH: the secure shell tool

AWS: interacting with the public cloud provider

Testing: writing and running tests

Unit Testing

Unit tests verify the behaviour of isolated sub-systems. At the lowest level, this would test code functions. At higher levels this would be a collection of code or a unit of infrastructure. In unit tests, dependencies on external services are mocked/stubbed out.

JavaScript testing

QUnit: in-browser testing

Integration Testing

Integration tests verify behaviour behaviour between independent sub-system. At lower levels this would test the behaviour of code functions with external systems. At higher levels this would test the behaviour of collections of code or infrastructure with other external services.

JavaScript testing

QUnit: in-browser testing

UI (user interface) testing

JavaScript testing

Playwright: browser testing