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Mastering Elixir

By : André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
Book Image

Mastering Elixir

By: André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha

Overview of this book

Running concurrent, fault-tolerant applications that scale is a very demanding responsibility. After learning the abstractions that Elixir gives us, developers are able to build such applications with inconceivable low effort. There is a big gap between playing around with Elixir and running it in production, serving live requests. This book will help you fll this gap by going into detail on several aspects of how Elixir works and showing concrete examples of how to apply the concepts learned to a fully ?edged application. In this book, you will learn how to build a rock-solid application, beginning by using Mix to create a new project. Then you will learn how the use of Erlang's OTP, along with the Elixir abstractions that run on top of it (such as GenServer and GenStage), that allow you to build applications that are easy to parallelize and distribute. You will also master supervisors (and supervision trees), and comprehend how they are the basis for building fault-tolerant applications. Then you will use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Upon fnishing implementation, you will learn how to take your application to the cloud, using Kubernetes to automatically deploy, scale, and manage it. Last, but not least, you will keep your peace of mind by learning how to thoroughly test and then monitor your application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Demand-Driven Processing
Index

Integration testing


Having covered unit tests, let's now move on to integration tests. In this type of testing, we're interested in asserting that all the different layers of our application are working together as expected. This is usually done by testing at the edges of your system, letting all the components in your application interact with each other, and then validating that the response is the anticipated one.

There are other types of testing, such as end-to-end testing, which go even a step further and test the system from the perspective of the end user. In our case, this would be through a browser, clicking through the buttons and links inside our application, and then asserting that the user sees the expected information. While we don't cover this type of testing in this book, much of what we'll talk about in this section also apply to end-to-end testing.

In this kind of test, where we're observing the application from the outside, we don't want to test every possible state combination...