Automated Chaos Testing on the Front-end
March 7, 2024
Chaos engineering is the science of optimizing the resiliency of a software system by simulating failures and measuring the impact of these failures on the system. These simulations help anticipate real world issues before they happen, and ensure our systems can degrade gracefully. The practice is commonly leveraged for backend and distributed systems, and more and more tooling is being developed in this space. On the front-end however, we haven’t observed much discussion or activity from web or mobile communities to ensure our clients are as resilient as they should be.
The ultimate goal for us was to be able to answer this question: “If this part of our overall system (e.g. backend service, third-party API) fails, how does our front-end behave and what do our end users see?”
But of an older post, but crossed our desk and thought it worth re-amplifying.
