Testing Java Microservices

Chapter 7. End-to-end testing

This chapter covers

• End-to-end testing of microservice applications
• Tools for end-to-end testing
• Setting up Arquillian for end-to-end tests

End-to-end tests build on integration tests, which in turn build on all the other forms of testing you’ve learned about. As the name indicates, end-to-end tests are designed to test your application from start to finish (or top to bottom, if you prefer). They should in theory simulate a real-world user of your application, or at least perform the actions of a real user. In practice, these tests are usually the most difficult to write and consume the most development time. End-to-end tests are nearly always slow in comparison to other types of tests, so they’re often isolated ...