Pro Java Clustering and Scalability: Building Real-Time Apps with Spring, Cassandra, Redis, WebSocket and RabbitMQ

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23. Types of Automated Tests

Jorge Acetozi¹ 

(1)São Paulo / SP, Brazil

There are lots of types of automated tests that can be coded. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses. The following are the most common ones:

• Unit tests: These provide fast feedback, but they test only an isolated unit of code (say, a method in a class). For example, an issue with a SQL query would not be caught since a unit test would not hit the database. Unit tests usually are executed in seconds or even milliseconds.

• Integration tests: These provide slower feedback, but they include testing the external integrations such as databases or web services. ...