Create a test application repository

[jackstockley89]

Background

When testing modules and new features in a test cluster there can be some drawbacks in testing the functionality, this can limit testing and can take a lot more time as we need to find or create an application to fulfil our needs. Have seen this kinder problem during the testing of Keda where testing the scalers is a challenge due to not having an application to push load to for scaling

Approach

We should look to create a repository that contains test applications for our modules that can be spun up in test clusters that will give use the ability to test the features to modules when needed

A starting point would be to create an application that takes advantage of SQS which would give us the ability to test event-driven scaling within Keda

Definition of done

• readme has been updated
• another team member has reviewed
• smoke tests are green
• prepare demo for the team

Reference

How to write good user stories

[mikebell]

Is the plan to have one application that utilises all our modules or a set of application for each module. Could this utilise something like feature flags for each module?

[jackstockley89]

the idea I have is to create a module, which will use flags to create a namespace and setup AWS resources needed for testing purposes

[jackstockley89]

example testing repo