Chapter 10. Testing microservices: Part 2
This chapter covers:
- Techniques for testing services in isolation
- Using consumer-driven contract testing to write tests that quickly yet reliably verify interservice communication
- When and how to do end-to-end testing of applications
This chapter builds on the previous chapter, which introduced testing concepts, including the test pyramid. The test pyramid describes the relative proportions of the different types of tests that you should write. The previous chapter described how to write unit tests, which are at the base of the testing pyramid. In this chapter, we continue our ascent of the testing pyramid.
This chapter begins with how to write integration tests, which are the level above unit tests ...
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