The internet is a harsh mistress. Sites go down, change without notice, or even just disappear entirely. The web — are you sitting down? — is not 100 percent reliable. This means that testing a project that has external dependencies, things can fail that aren’t even your bugs. What’s a software testing engineer to do?!uo
Make your own internet, that’s what. Or at least a network layer mocking system to take care of that outbound traffic, so there are no third party downtime network issues or other constraints that break your test. The software engineering team at the LinkedIn social networking service announced in a blog post Friday that they have done just that, building a new internet mocking tool called Flashback to remove that uncontrolled variable from the testing equation.
Read more at The New Stack
