Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

Testing in the microservices world

As we move away from the Monolithic architecture, we need to understand that the processes that used to work for us in the Monolithic application development also need to move along. During the development of the Monolithic application, we used to work with the testing strategies such as unit testing, which aimed to cover the functionality of the individual methods inside an application, followed by integration testing, which is used to cover the fact that these methods operate correctly with each other.

Inside the microservices architecture, things get a little bit complicated. We now have small services where each service is supposed to perform a specific functionality. These services indeed need to interact ...