Thought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Software architect and trainer Steve Smith, founder of Ardalis Services, hosted this Slack takeover and discussed producing testable code, writing maintainable tests, and boosting employability.

Serverless computing is a DevOps technique that uses cloud-provided runtimes to execute code components in a defined workflow. Testing is easier in some ways with this model, but more difficult in others. Let's dive into the ways testing serverless applications and components is different from traditional architecture.

When written clearly and concisely, automated tests can perform quality assessment that would take developers days or weeks to do manually. To maximize their effectiveness, you should compose these tests the best possible way. Here are five guidelines to write automated tests efficiently and increase their usefulness.