Testing Java Microservices

Chapter 4. Component-testing microservices

This chapter covers

• Introducing the Arquillian testing framework
• Working with Arquillian extensions for RESTful web services and Spring
• Testing resource, domain, and remote components

You’ve learned about the basic component makeup of a microservice and various basic testing techniques. Now it’s time to dig a little deeper into what style of test best suits each component, and how you should implement those tests.

Component tests should be designed to verify the functionality of and between a microservice’s internal modules, with one exception: the external public-facing resource component. You want to be sure the public-facing service is accessible to the world in the way that you’ve planned, so ...