Platform Engineering
Developer portals are the front door to your internal developer platform. When the portal is broken — catalog entries missing, API docs stale, scaffolder failing silently — developers lose trust in the platform. This guide covers how to test developer portals built on Backstage (and similar tools): catalog data integrity, API documentation
Platform Engineering
Platform engineering teams need their own measurement framework — not just the DORA metrics they report for product teams. This guide covers the KPIs that matter for IDP reliability: golden path success rates, self-service workflow latency, platform API availability, test coverage breadth, and how to connect testing metrics to business outcomes.
Platform Engineering
A golden path is the recommended, paved workflow for developers on your platform — "create a new microservice," "onboard a new team," "deploy to production." If the golden path is broken, the entire engineering organization is blocked. This guide covers how to define, instrument, and
Platform Engineering
Crossplane turns Kubernetes into a universal control plane for infrastructure — but untested compositions are ticking time bombs. This guide covers the full Crossplane testing stack: unit-style testing with kuttl, Uptest for provider integration tests, composition validation with crossplane beta validate, and end-to-end infrastructure tests that provision real cloud resources in
Testing
Software templates and scaffolding tools bootstrap new projects, services, and components. When templates work correctly, developers get a fully wired-up starting point — CI/CD configured, linting set up, tests passing. When templates have bugs, every new project starts with broken infrastructure that nobody notices until it's too late.
Testing
Port.io is an internal developer portal (IDP) platform that lets platform teams model their software catalog, define quality scorecards, and build self-service workflows for developers. When Port is the system of record for your services and infrastructure, testing its configuration becomes as important as testing application code. This guide
Testing
Internal developer platforms (IDPs) are infrastructure for your engineers. When they break, all development stops. Yet most platform teams define SLOs for their user-facing products while running their own IDPs on vibes and hope. This guide covers how to define meaningful SLOs for developer platforms, test them with chaos experiments,
DevOps
Internal developer platforms (IDPs) are the infrastructure that your engineering teams depend on every day. A broken platform breaks every team simultaneously. This guide covers the full QA strategy for IDPs: from the testing pyramid for platform components, to golden path validation, self-service workflow smoke tests, chaos testing for platform
DevOps
Backstage plugins live at the intersection of React frontend, Node.js backend, and Backstage's entity catalog — which makes them surprisingly tricky to test. This guide walks through unit testing plugin backends with @backstage/test-utils, integration-testing catalog API interactions, and running Cypress E2E tests against a real Backstage instance.