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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By : Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
Book Image

Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By: Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco

Overview of this book

Microservices are a hot trend in the development world right now. Many enterprises have adopted this approach to achieve agility and the continuous delivery of applications to gain a competitive advantage. This book will take you through different design patterns at different stages of the microservice application development along with their best practices. Microservice Patterns and Best Practices starts with the learning of microservices key concepts and showing how to make the right choices while designing microservices. You will then move onto internal microservices application patterns, such as caching strategy, asynchronism, CQRS and event sourcing, circuit breaker, and bulkheads. As you progress, you'll learn the design patterns of microservices. The book will guide you on where to use the perfect design pattern at the application development stage and how to break monolithic application into microservices. You will also be taken through the best practices and patterns involved while testing, securing, and deploying your microservice application. At the end of the book, you will easily be able to create interoperable microservices, which are testable and prepared for optimum performance.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Testing Microservices

Throughout all the previous chapters, we have done a great job implementing a series of patterns in our application, the news portal. Now, it is time to understand and validate whether the project business flows are working properly.

Even though it is not a very large microservices project, performing manual tests would be complex and we would surely fail in our evaluation or forget some important tasks for the business of the application.

There is no doubt that automated testing is best suited for any type of software. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Unit tests
  • Integration tests
  • End-to-end tests
  • Pipelines
  • Signature tests
  • Monkey tests