October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 22m
English
To warm up, we’re going to start our tests with our independent caching layer. Since our cache is made up of a standalone genserver, we can test it in isolation. It’s a good place to start because our cache can do two things: fetch and put.
For the most part, testing our cache will work like testing any other service. We’ll create a cache and try some fetches and puts. Then we’ll use asserts to check what actually happened against our expectations. Let’s begin with a few basic tests and then we can handle corner cases for timeouts and shutdown. Shift into the apps/info_sys directory and then make tests/cache_test.exs look like this:
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