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Testing Distributed Systems

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
9
submitters
9
observed span
2018–2024
peak thread · 39 comments
271 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-02-11
271 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Related to this topic: When running integration/e2e tests, setting up the environment (all the required services, data stores etc.) in the right sequence, loading them with test data and so forth can be thorny to automate. Good automation around preparing/provisioning the testing environment is a necessary companion to the testing tools/frameworks themselves. Most commonly, fully-capable testing environments aren't available during the inner loop of development (where the dev setup can usually only run unit tests…

ths·271-point thread·

Always neat to see real world stories about using TLA+. Putting the talk on my to watch list.

Good collection, thank you!

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
448

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
42

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-05-01Curated list of resources on testing distributed systemsAlexDenisov180
2018-05-04Testing distributed systemsFirst breakoutDawny331272
2020-04-03Testing Distributed SystemsBella-Xiang60
2021-10-15Testing Distributed Systemspradeepchhetri40
2022-02-02Testing Distributed Systemseatonphil121
2022-02-03Testing Distributed SystemsgreenSunglass20
2022-02-06Testing Distributed Systemsbrlnwest50
2022-02-11Testing Distributed SystemsBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnngaut27139
2024-06-14Testing Distributed Systemsudev409630