Sauce Labs: Using Test-Kitchen for Local Testing

By Greg Sypolt

Test Kitchen is used mainly for integration testing for your Chef Cookbooks, but it can also be used to isolate application bugs in a local environment. It is the best method to test and debug your application or infrastructure code locally using virtual technologies. Test Kitchen can converge Chef cookbooks across various combinations of platforms (operating systems). The most important aspect of this local testing framework is that it's a self-service tool anyone can use at any given time.

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