As testers we often find ourselves frustrated with unstable or mis-configured environments especially for legacy applications where infrastructure and configuration isn't always written as code; and there is limited subject matter expertise in understanding all the interdependencies and intricacies of how everything works therefore leading to delays in problem resolution. Traditional application focused functional automation may not be suitable to provide an effective and easy solution to detect such issues.

InSpec is a platform agnostic, open source testing framework for compliance and infrastructure testing. It allows developers, testers and operations to express expectations about the state of the applications and infrastructure. In this talk, Jet will be going over the fundamentals of InSpec and how it may be used to help testers find infrastructure, environmental and configuration issues, fast.