Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Submit order leg

The first leg of an end-to-end scenario is often initiated by a user interaction. In this example, the user submits an order from a website that may be implemented in Angular or React. The scenario could include a Selenium test, implemented using the likes of WebdriverIO and executed across multiple browsers via services such as Sauce Labs. Alternatively, the test could be implemented at the integration level, for example, as an unmocked Redux test. Regardless, the frontend and BFF component should be owned by the same team, and thus coordinating the first leg should not be an obstacle.

For this example, the first leg is implemented as a Mocha test using the Supertest client library. The developer has both the frontend project ...