Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

The challenges of testing services

Testing services, while not difficult, can be substantially more elaborate than the relatively basic unit testing that's been shown up to this point. Each point in the general hms_sys data flow from an Artisan to the Gateway, for example, has specific and individual testing concerns, but the flow as a whole should, ideally, be as well, so that an end-to-end process verification can be performed on demand.

The end-to-end flow could be pictured like this:

From start to finish, a test plan for this data flow would need to address, at a minimum, the following:

• Creating the message-data in a fashion that it could ...