Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Test pyramid

The testing pyramid is a strategy or a way of defining what you should test in RESTful services. In other words, we can say a test pyramid helps us to define the testing scope of RESTful services.

The concept of the testing pyramid was developed by Mike Cohn (http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/the-forgotten-layer-of-the-test-automation-pyramid) in 2009.

There are various flavors of the testing pyramid; different authors have described this by indicating how they placed or prioritized their testing scope.

The following diagram depicts the same concept as defined by Mike Cohn:

Let's talk about these layers in detail.

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