Howards End-to-End Testing

Only Connect Your Test Environments

E. M. Forster · 25 June 2026

“Only connect the services.”

A thoughtful examination of integration testing, test environments, deployment confidence, and the enduring wisdom of ensuring that systems actually communicate with one another before release day.

Contents

1. Chapter 1: The Development Environment
2. Chapter 2: A Visit to Staging
3. Chapter 3: The Production Incident
4. Chapter 4: Only Connect

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.