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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Overview of this book

The capabilities of the Swift programming language are extended to server-side development using popular frameworks such as Vapor. This enables Swift programmers to implement the microservices approach to design scalable and easy-to-maintain architecture for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS applications. This book is a complete guide to building microservices for iOS applications. You’ll start by examining Swift and Vapor as backend technologies and compare them to their alternatives. The book then covers the concept of microservices to help you get started with developing your first microservice. Throughout this book, you’ll work on a case study of writing an e-commerce backend as a microservice application. You’ll understand each microservice as it is broken down into details and written out as code throughout the book. You’ll also become familiar with various aspects of server-side development such as scalability, database options, and information flow for microservices that are unwrapped in the process. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with microservices testing and see how it is different from testing a monolith application. Along the way, you’ll explore tools such as Docker, Postman, and Amazon Web Services. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build a ready-to-deploy application that can be used as a base for future applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Testing the service

Testing this service is relatively simple. We can skip unit tests as we are not writing functions suited for those. It makes more sense to write a Postman test suite that will test the API endpoints. In Chapter 8, Testing Microservices you learned how to do that. So, let's apply that here, as follows:

  1. Open Postman and create a new test suite.
  2. Set up authentication so that we can test the admin functions as well.
  3. Go through the preceding routes and add a test for each one of them.
  4. Let Postman test this service and verify that it works as expected.
You can find the entire test suite in the GitHub repository for this chapter: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Microservices-with-Swift-5/tree/master/Chapter 9/ProductService

Now that we have tested this service, let's summarize what we have learned.

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