Unit-Testing Home Automations That Run in Kubernetes
Home automations are code that controls physical things. When they break, the consequences aren’t a 500 error — they’re a garage door that won’t close in a snowstorm, or window shades that open at 3 AM, or a tablet that charges to 100% and stays plugged in for months until the battery swells. I run about 20 AppDaemon automations in my homelab, all deployed as Kubernetes ConfigMaps and tested with appdaemontestframework. The testing isn’t academic — it’s caught real bugs that would have been annoying or expensive to discover in production. ...