Python Microservices Development

Integration tests

Unit tests and functional tests focus on testing your service code without calling other network resources, whether they are other microservices from your application or third-party services like databases, queues, and so on. For the sake of speed, isolation, and simplicity, network calls are mocked.

Integration tests are functional tests without any mocking, and should be able to run on a real deployment of your application. For example, if your service interacts with Redis and RabbitMQ, they will be called by your service as normal when the integration tests are run.

The benefit is to avoid falling into the problems that were described earlier when mocking network interactions. You will be sure that your application works ...