Trace-Based Testing: The Next Step in Observability

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Observability is one of the key constituents of cloud native technology for software engineers. In fact, thehttps://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.mdstates that cloud native technologies “enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable and observable.” But why stop at simply observing system behavior?

“We’ve been talking about trace data like trace data is something special, but really trace data is just data.

By relying on the tracing data from your existing tracing system to enable testing, we make integration tests much easier to write.

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