Chapter 10. Testing Microservices and Microservice-Based Systems
The division of a system into microservices has an impact on testing. Section 10.1 explains the motivation behind software tests. Section 10.2 discusses fundamental approaches to testing broadly, not just with regard to microservices. Section 10.3 explains why there are particular challenges when testing microservices that are not present in other architectural patterns. For example, in a microservice-based system the entire system consisting of all microservices has to be tested (section 10.4). This can be difficult when there are a large number of microservices. Section 10.5 describes the special case of a legacy application that is being replaced by microservices. In that situation ...
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