Resilience is paramount in the current digital landscape. With the increasing complexity of software systems and the ever-present threat of unforeseen failures, businesses must proactively fortify their digital infrastructure. This is where Chaos Engineering comes into play. It’s not about causing chaos for chaos’s sake but rather a strategic approach to identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening systems.

In the fast-paced world of software development, quality assurance, and testing have evolved into critical components of the development process. Navigating this complex landscape has become a challenge for many, especially when deciding which tests to perform, what to automate, and how to ensure the highest quality in software releases. Our recent episode on the QA Therapy Podcast delved deep into these pressing questions, and today, we're excited to bring you the highlights.

Software testing does not stop at checking individual components. Even if those components are working perfectly fine individually, issues can still arise when we combine them together into a unified system. Integration testing ensures that components communicate well with each other to form a complete application, and QA teams usually leverage integration testing tools to achieve that.

Complex functionality can take a while to load. Users, in general, don't like to wait, so solutions must evolve. If you are already familiar with async/await in JavaScript, think of await as the place where blocking logically occurs. This forces the algorithm to wait, and technically, it's still synchronous code. Step functions allow long-running processes to run in the background asynchronously, so the logic does not get blocked and force people to wait.