QA/TestingTable-stakes

Integration Testing

Automated tests that check whether multiple parts of a system work correctly together, not just in isolation.

Think of it like

Like taste-testing the finished dish as a whole, to make sure all the individually-fine ingredients actually work well together.

Junior or senior?

Junior sounds like

Lets flaky integration tests get ignored or re-run until they pass.

Senior sounds like

Can describe how they actually dealt with a test that was failing intermittently.

Ask them

“How did you deal with an integration test that was flaky — failing intermittently for no obvious reason?”