Local Service Integration Testing FAQs

Question 1

How does it prevent broken pull requests?

Accepted Answer

It uses a validation hook that checks for a specific local testing artifact in your GitHub issue comments before allowing a PR to be created, ensuring verification happened before the code leaves your machine.

Question 2

What happens if I don't have Docker installed?

Accepted Answer

This skill relies on Docker Compose for service orchestration. If you cannot run services locally, the validation hooks will prompt you to resolve the environment before proceeding with service-dependent changes.

Question 3

Which services are supported by this skill?

Accepted Answer

The skill automatically detects any services defined in your project's docker-compose.yml file, commonly supporting PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and other standard backend dependencies.

Question 4

Why test against real services locally instead of just using CI?

Accepted Answer

Mocks often fail to catch schema mismatches, constraint violations, and transaction errors. Local testing ensures these are caught immediately, rather than waiting for slow CI pipelines to fail.

Question 5

Does this replace unit testing with mocks?

Accepted Answer

No, it requires both. Unit tests are for fast logic verification during the TDD cycle, while this skill adds a requirement for integration tests against real services to catch environment-specific bugs.

Local Service Integration Testing

Local Service Integration Testing

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