I am not the original author of this post’s contents. I recently found this email reply from John Mitchell while discussing the testing aspects of micro services in our project. It is so informative that I didn't want this to get lost in emails. Adding this here. (Names have been changed to keep the focus on the topic under discussion) Hi PersonA, I think our discussions about the Quality Criteria were pretty clear… And to be even more precise, they must be able to be automatically run as part of the appropriate phases in the pipeline. APIs Message / file formats, etc. UI’s which they provide Telemetry which they generate for business/application/operation/etc. monitoring/alerting/tracking/etc. Martin’s slide that you point ed is no excuse to get out of any of the above. He’s pointing out, as I did, that false metrics such as “code coverage” percentages are misleading and inefficient ways to measure actual quality of the software (as opposed to trying to force the team to spend t...