Architecting Test Infrastructure

Test infrastructure is architecture. Treat it with the same care as production boundaries.

Use this before writing individual tests when the test runner, BDD framework, fixtures, data, services, isolation, or environment setup are missing or weak.

Testing Skill Map

high-level-testing-strategy
  -> architecting-test-infra       (you are here: test infrastructure architecture)
       -> prove infra with one representative test
       -> test-driven-development  (for automated test implementation)
       -> manual-testing           (for runtime/e2e/smoke verification)
  -> verification-before-completion