https://www.rustybower.com/tags/testing/Recent content in Testing on Rusty BowerHugoen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/unit-tested-appdaemon-automations-kubernetes/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/unit-tested-appdaemon-automations-kubernetes/<p>Home automations are code that controls physical things. When they break, the consequences aren&rsquo;t a 500 error — they&rsquo;re a garage door that won&rsquo;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.</p> <p>I run about 20 <a href="https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/">AppDaemon</a> automations in my homelab, all deployed as Kubernetes ConfigMaps and tested with <a href="https://github.com/FlorianKemworthy/appdaemontestframework">appdaemontestframework</a>. The testing isn&rsquo;t academic — it&rsquo;s caught real bugs that would have been annoying or expensive to discover in production.</p>