Architecture Drives Testing: From Monolith to Microservices – One Story, Three Realities

Testing cannot exist in isolation from architecture. This talk demonstrates how design decisions define everything from test scope to automation strategy. Using one simple user story — “user registration in a webshop” — we compare how testing changes across a monolithic, SOA-based, and microservices architecture. Each system delivers the same business logic, but the workflows, dataflows, and testing approaches differ radically. Participants will learn how to align their testing model with architectural realities and build smarter, architecture-aware QA strategies.

Value for the audience:
Participants will gain a clear framework for aligning test design, automation scope, and delivery models with the underlying architecture. They will see concrete examples of how the same business feature requires entirely different testing patterns in monoliths, SOA systems, and microservices. The session helps test managers, architects, and automation engineers build architecture-conscious QA strategies that reduce risk and improve efficiency.

Problems addressed:
Testing strategies are often architecture-agnostic, leading to inefficient coverage and high maintenance costs.

Teams reuse the same test automation and delivery model across fundamentally different system architectures.

Lack of architectural understanding among testers results in fragile end-to-end testing and limited scalability.

Talk language: English
Level: Advanced
Target group: Test Architects, QA Leads, Test Managers, Test Engineer, Test Automation Engineer and Software Architects

Company:
Dolpheen IT Solutions GmbH

Ibrahim Bektas