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Programming Phoenix 1.4
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Programming Phoenix 1.4

by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, Jose Valim
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 22m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Wrapping Up

Amazingly, this is the last chapter dealing with our Rumbl application! In this chapter, we tested the most sophisticated features in our entire application stack. You probably noticed that the functional nature of Phoenix made testing the application much easier than you might have expected. Our tests run quickly, and they’re compact, thanks to the helpers that abstract concepts like assert_reply, assert_broadcast, and assert_receive. Here’s what we accomplished:

  • We tested our OTP layer for our InfoSys OTP application.

  • We split out an independent caching layer for performance.

  • We built a specific backend rather than a dynamic stub or mock to keep our tests isolated, as our unit and integration tests should be.

  • We tested our sockets ...

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