1# kat
2Kubernetes Acceptance Testing tool
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4This is a testing tool that was originally developed for testing of
5ambassador, but could potentially be useful for any sort of
6application built on top of kubernetes.
7
8This tool streamlines the following process:
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101. apply a bunch of yaml
112. wait for services to spin up
123. run a bunch of queries against the spun up APIs
134. perform a bunch of assertions on those query results
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15We originally built these sort of tests in a unit-testing style
16framework where each test would proceed through this sequence on its
17own. This turns out to be very slow since steps two and three are
18highly synchronous/chatty.
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20This test framework runs these sorts of tests several orders of
21magnitude faster by a) applying the yaml for all tests in a single big
22batch up front, and b) performing all the queries in step 3
23asynchronously using a high performance client.
24
25Please see the [tutorial](docs/tutorial.rst) to get started.
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