Software Testing Engineering Standard¶
Version: 1.0.0
Status: official
Author: Enterprise AI Standards
Description¶
Official engineering standard for designing, implementing and maintaining automated tests across the entire software lifecycle.
Objective¶
Ensure software quality through automated testing, continuous validation and measurable coverage at every application layer.
Philosophy¶
Testing is a design activity, not a validation activity. Every feature should be designed with testability in mind from the beginning of development.
Principles¶
- Test First mindset.
- Automated testing mandatory.
- Fast feedback.
- Independent tests.
- Deterministic execution.
- Readable tests.
- Maintainable tests.
- Test behavior, not implementation.
- Continuous execution.
- High confidence deployments.
Project Structure¶
Language Features¶
Virtual Threads¶
Structured Concurrency¶
Records¶
Sealed Classes¶
Pattern Matching¶
Collections¶
Streams¶
Optional¶
Exceptions¶
Logging¶
Performance¶
- Tests complete quickly.
- Parallel execution.
- Avoid unnecessary setup.
Security¶
Testing¶
Observability¶
Documentation¶
- Complex scenarios documented.
- Explain integration dependencies.
Best Practices¶
- AAA Pattern.
- Given When Then.
- Independent Tests.
- Testcontainers.
- AssertJ.
- Builders.
- Small Tests.
- Continuous Execution.
- High Coverage.
- Fast Feedback.
Anti Patterns¶
- Sleeping threads.
- Shared database.
- Order dependent tests.
- Huge test classes.
- Mocking everything.
- Ignoring failures.
- Random data.
- Manual testing only.
- Low coverage.
- Disabled tests.
Review Checklist¶
- [ ] Unit Tests.
- [ ] Integration Tests.
- [ ] API Tests.
- [ ] Coverage above threshold.
- [ ] CI passing.
- [ ] Testcontainers.
- [ ] Performance Tests.
- [ ] Security Tests.
- [ ] Documentation updated.
Examples¶
References¶
- https://junit.org/
- https://assertj.github.io/
- https://site.mockito.org/
- https://testcontainers.com/
- https://playwright.dev/
- https://rest-assured.io/
- https://grafana.com/docs/k6/
- https://gatling.io/