Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the topic of testing and its various flavors: unit testing, integration testing, and all kinds of end-to-end testing. We also dived deep into how Delinkcious tests are structured. We explored the link manager unit tests, added a new smoke test, and introduced Telepresence for expediting the edit-test-debug life cycle against a real Kubernetes cluster while modifying the code locally.

That being said, testing is a spectrum that has costs, and just blindly adding more and more tests doesn't make your system better or higher quality. There are many important trade-offs between quantity and quality of tests, such as the time it takes to develop and maintain the tests, the time and resources it takes to run ...