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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development
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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

by Ralph Kuepper
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Unit tests for microservices

For the most part, unit tests are the same whether it is a monolithic application or a microservice application. Due to their defining nature, unit tests are not ideal as the only tool to test software; however, we should definitely use unit tests for individual functions that provide some isolated features. The difference is that unit tests look at an individual function only. This is certainly useful but it does not test the software as a whole. Examples of good unit tests include the following:

  • Input validation
  • Output validation
  • Name/string parsing
  • Date/time-related functions
  • Function chains
The entire Vapor framework is tested with unit tests. Because the framework has a lot of connected functions, it makes ...
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