Friday 3 April 2020

What are the challenges you see with third party inbound and outbound testing when using IBM MQ queues?

"What are the challenges you see with third party inbound and outbound testing when using IBM MQ queues?" - Software tester working for a multinational enterprise.

Sometimes third-party systems can cause issues when testing your enterprise systems, for example:
  • The third-party system is not available 24/7 for testing, you need to schedule time on test environments as it is shared between many teams which result in the lower time to market
  • The third-party system does not allow for simulating error responses
  • The third-party test environment might not support the load you require for running your performance tests

In this case, you can use service virtualization or mocking tool to simulate the third party system.

Here is a sample tutorial for Traffic Parrot if you are using IBM MQ via JMS APIs.

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