Alice Nodelman

Beaker offers a means to write simple, readable tests that can be run in a wide array of testing scenarios (local testing, cloud testing, many platforms, etc). Beaker is written to abstract systems and platforms to create a general acceptance testing automator. While it is core to Puppet Labs testing, it is not Puppet Labs specific. As a free, open source project I see it as being usable and portable. I hope that people will be excited about getting started with Beaker for their own testing and becoming a part of the community of testers dedicated to maintaining and extending the Beaker project.

Beaker is built to test command line controllable projects, if you are a GUI tester it is most likely not the tool for you – Want to write full stack acceptance tests that live beside code? Beaker can do that for you! – Want to work in the cloud? Beaker can do that for you! – Want to write tests that continue to work even as your test matrix expands? Beaker can do that for you!

Mobile testing will continue to be a challenge as the number of platforms that users execute applications on expands. – the automation of testing systems themselves to identify unreliable/flaky tests and diagnose/notify QA – While some areas of the industry adopt and abandon platforms rapidly, there are still many older systems that require continued patching and maintenance. Bringing modern testing and pipelines to these systems is important and challenging.