Quality assurance, or testing, is a great way to assess a system, program, or an application with different aspects. Sometimes, a system requires testing to identify erroneous code, on other occasions we may need it to assess our system's business compliance. Testing can vary from system to system and can be considerably different depending on the architectural style of the application. Everything depends on how we are strategizing our testing approach or plan. For example, testing a monolith .NET application is different to testing SOA or microservices. In this chapter, we will cover these topics:
- How to test microservices
- Handling challenges
- Testing strategies
- The testing pyramid
- Types of microservice tests