> and local testing You mention this as an afterthought but that's the critical feature. Giving developers the ability to run integration tests locally is a ma

> and local testing You mention this as an afterthought but that's the critical feature. Giving developers the ability to run integration tests locally is a massive win in a "ball of mud" environment. There are other ways to accomplish this locally, but the test-infrastructure-as-test-code approach is a powerful and conceptually elegant abstraction, especially when used as a tool to design testcontainers for your own services that can be imported as packages into dependent services.