BaseCamp Zero

Today, many applications are cloud-native: their architecture and design are intended for deployment on the cloud. These applications operate worldwide and with millions of concurrent users, making quality attributes such as responsiveness, resilience and elasticity indispensable.

Key to modern, large-scale software development is testing, especially in fast-moving codebases such as those employed in cloud-native applications. However, assuring the quality of cloud-native architectures remains a major challenge. The testability is hampered by the inherent non-determinism of their distributed behavior, which is exacerbated by the dynamic environment in which they operate. All this makes cloud-native applications difficult to test manually let alone automatically.

The goal of the BaseCamp Zero project is to take steps towards autonomous (zero-touch) testing of cloud-native architectures. To this end, the project focuses on four key problems: flaky tests, resilience testing, failure reproduction and test amplification.