Automated integration tests

[vesely-david]

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[vesely-david]

Enabling automated integration tests is a key for increasing productivity of development and confidence in the code in general.

Proposed way:

I think we can take confluent_kafka repository as inspiration.
They run the integration tests in 2 ways:

• using trivup library, to automatically start a simple kafka cluster and test against it.
• run the test against existing kafka cluster when it is available

In my understanding, we could write the tests as follows:

• default to trivup so it could be run automatically as github action
• every developer has the option to run it locally against his own kafka cluster

Happy to discuss. @felipemmelo @DanWertheimer what are your thoughts/suggestions?

[felipemmelo]

VERY happy with this approach.