Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is an enterprise web content management system that, like many other enterprise applications, is a complex piece of software to set up and configure.
We can't eliminate this complexity completely, but we can reduce it for many use-cases.
AEM OpenCloud is an open source project being led by Shine Solutions that automates the setup of a complete ready-to-use AEM environment in the cloud within 15 minutes.
However, testing and verifying that an AEM installation is working correctly is laborious and time-consuming. Done manually, testing can certainly take longer than the 15 minutes required to actually build the environment in the first place.
Fortunately, automated testing was identified early on in the project as an important part of OpenCloud's modular design, as is made clear by this diagram created by Cliff Subagio, one of the project founders:
However, it's one thing to
say that testing is important, it's another thing to actually
do it. In this post I'll talk about why and how we used
InSpec to implement automated testing in OpenCloud.
31 October, 2018
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