Testing is essential to ensure that your software application performs as expected. No doubt about it. But even if your application runs smoothly in a testing environment, unexpected incidents can occur in production, such as a crashed database or a lost connection to a third-party service. By Donald Le and Tomas Fernandez.
In this article, we’ll explore how to implement chaos testing using k6 for two backend services, to help you ensure the resilience of your application. Also in the article:
- What is chaos testing?
- Why implement chaos testing?
- What is k6?
- How the xk6-disruptor works
- Pod disruptor
- Service disruptor
- An example of chaos testing
k6 is a load-testing tool for checking that your application can withstand the expected workload. Besides a load testing tool, k6 provides experimental features to apply chaos testing using xk6-disruptor extension. To do that, you write chaos testing scenarios in JavaScript. Good read!
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