[Discussion] Embracing Comprehensive Testing Strategies for Low-Code Solutions

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Discussion Topic

Title:
Embracing Comprehensive Testing Strategies for Low-Code Solutions

Description

Overview:
As an Enterprise Architect or someone who works with your Enterprise Architecture team, you play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape of your organization. With the increasing adoption of low-code platforms like the Power Platform, it's essential to ensure that these solutions are not only agile but also scalable, secure, and reliable. This discussion aims to explore the strategic importance of comprehensive testing strategies for low-code solutions, addressing key concerns and factors that matter to IT leadership and business decision makers.

Details:

• Automated Testing: Ensures applications are sustainable, reliable, secure, and performant, providing a safety net for new features.
• Manual Testing Limitations: Manual testing is time-consuming, prone to human error, not scalable, and offers limited test coverage.
  Scaling to Enterprise Grade: Adopting a model that can deploy on demand and rapidly respond to new features, errors, or security requirements.
• Impacts on People, Process, and Tooling: Integration of low-code solutions with existing automated testing and CI practices, known as the "no cliffs" extensibility model.
• Transformative Power of AI: AI in automated testing can suggest comprehensive test suites and cases, bridging the gap in domain knowledge.
• Challenges of Code-First Testing Tools: Code-first testing tools can present challenges in terms of scalability and efficiency.
• Guiding Principles for Low-Code Testing: Principles such as record and replay, isolation, human in the loop, generative AI for test suggestions, state changes observation, single responsibility tests, assertion for verification, abstract complexity, trust, and simplicity.

Key Questions

1. How can automated testing enhance the reliability and performance of low-code solutions?
2. What are the main challenges of using code-first testing tools for low-code solutions, and how can they be addressed?
3. What is your view on the guiding principles for low-code testing be applied to ensure high-quality applications?

Resources

Embracing Testing Strategies for Low-Code Solutions- A Discussion for Enterprise Architects

Call to Action

Let's discuss the strategic importance of comprehensive testing strategies for low-code solutions. Share your experiences, ask questions, and provide feedback on how these strategies can enhance the development process and ensure high-quality applications.

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