Course: SRE Testing Tasks

Site reliability engineers (SREs) can use various testing techniques to ensure software operations are as failure-free as possible for a specified time in a specified environment. In this course, you'll explore multiple testing techniques, their purposes, and the tasks involved in their execution. You'll start by examining traditional software testing approaches, such as unit tests, integration tests, and system tests.

Next, you'll investigate the components and use cases of various reliability metrics applied to SRE testing, including mean time to failure (MTTF), mean time to recover (MTTR), and mean time between failures (MTBF).

Lastly, you'll outline several software testing approaches, such as stress, configuration, integration, acceptance, production, and canary testing, among others. You'll identify when, how, and by whom each of these testing types is carried out.

• Site reliability engineers (SREs) need to create a healthy test

• and build environment to ensure that products being distributed
• integrate and function as expected. In this course, you'll explore
• the fundamentals of creating a robust SRE test and build
• environment, looking at the standard tools and techniques available
• for testing at scale. You'll examine disaster and statistical
• testing, and learn about working with deadlines and production
• configurations. You'll investigate the topic of test failures,
• identifying why an SRE should expect specific tests to fail and how
• results for test failures can help maximize knowledge about
• operations and end-users. Lastly, you'll look at the why and how of
• incorporating break glass procedures, integration testing
• configuration files, and fake back-end versions into your testing
• procedures.