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CYC26 / Java

Beyond The Happy Path: Building a BDD Testing Strategy Across Microservices

Most teams write tests. Fewer write tests that actually catch the bugs that matter. In this talk, we’ll walk through how to design a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing strategy that scales across Java/Spring Boot microservices — not just unit tests, but a full contract-to-integration testing hierarchy that fits real CI/CD pipelines. You’ll walk away with patterns for test layering, Kafka event testing, and how to reduce flakiness without sacrificing coverage.

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What you’ll learn

Most teams write tests. Fewer write tests that actually catch the bugs that matter. In this talk, we’ll walk through how to design a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing strategy that scales across Java/Spring Boot microservices — not just unit tests, but a full contract-to-integration testing hierarchy that fits real CI/CD pipelines. You’ll walk away with patterns for test layering, Kafka event testing, and how to reduce flakiness without sacrificing coverage.