Scala Reactive Programming

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed TDD basics and its benefits. It follows Test First, Code Next approach thats why it is also known as Test First Development.

We discussed ScalaTest and its associated ScalaTestPlus Unit Testing Framework. The ScalaTest Plus Framework is a useful library to unit test Play Framework components.

You learned how to test Scala Standalone projects, using the ScalaTest framework, how to test Akka Actors, using its Testing module, akka-testkit; and how to test Akka Streams components, using Akka Toolkits testing modules, akka-testkit and akka-stream-testkit.

We saw that the Lagom Framework provides two testing modules, lagom-core-testkit and lagom-scaladsl-testkit, to unit test its components.

Next, we talked ...