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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Book Image

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications. With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Continuous integration—executing unit test cases in the pipeline

One of the most important steps in any software development methodology is to write automated unit tests to validate the correctness of our code. It is also important that we run these unit tests every time the developer commits new code, to provide test code coverage.

In this recipe, we will learn how to incorporate the process of building the unit tests that we developed in the Developing unit tests for Azure functions with HTTP triggers recipe of Chapter 5, Exploring testing tools for Azure functions.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we are going to add a new task to the pipeline that runs the unit test cases. Perform the following steps:

  1. Edit the AzureFunctions-CI build definition and add the .NET Core task as shown in Figure 12.22:
    Adding a .NET Core task
    Figure 12.22: Azure DevOps—build pipelines—adding a new task
  2. Once the task is added, change the following attributes of the task:

    Display Name...