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Automated testing is crucial in any software development project. Manually testing a system built from microservices is tedious and error-prone. In some cases, it is well-nigh impossible to test all the possible failure modes by simply exercising the application through exploratory tests executed by human QA personnel. Automating these tests will save hours of time, and it will prevent those bugs that could cost your business millions in profits.

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Notes

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    Tobias Clemson, “Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture,” November 18, 2014. http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing/#conclusion-summary

  2. 2.

    Testing nonfunctional requirements will not be shown in this book. Such specifications are most likely the hardest to verify, and short of a full load-testing environment probably impossible to assert.

  3. 3.

    Ian Robinson, “Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern,” June 12, 2006. http://martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.html

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    Pacto, https://github.com/thoughtworks/pacto ; Pact, https://github.com/realestate-com-au/pact ; Janus, https://github.com/gga/janus

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/dreamhead/moco

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/bbyars/mountebank

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/vcr/vcr

  8. 8.

    http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/

  9. 9.

    https://cucumber.io/

  10. 10.

    http://getgauge.io/

  11. 11.

    http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html

  12. 12.

    Tobias Clemson, “Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture,” November 18, 2014. http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing/#conclusion-test-pyramid

  13. 13.

    http://xunitpatterns.com/Test Double.html

  14. 14.

    For a more nuanced distinction between types of doubles, see Fowler’s “Marks Aren’t Stubs” article, January 2, 2007. http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html

  15. 15.

    https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks

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    https://github.com/bblimke/webmock

  17. 17.

    https://github.com/chrisk/fakeweb

  18. 18.

    See the “Direct Stubbing” section of the Typhoeus gem’s Readme, https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus#direct-stubbing

  19. 19.

    https://www.rust-lang.org/

  20. 20.

    https://cucumber.io/docs/reference

  21. 21.

    https://github.com/ruby-json-schema/json-schema

  22. 22.

    http://www.restpatterns.org/HTTP_Status_Codes/422_-_Unprocessable_Entity

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    Cloves Carneiro Jr.

  2. Broomfield, Colorado, USA

    Tim Schmelmer

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Carneiro, C., Schmelmer, T. (2016). Testing with Services. In: Microservices From Day One. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1937-9_9

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