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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Microservice Patterns and Best Practices Explore patterns like CQRS and event sourcing to create scalable, maintainable, and testable microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474030
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
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Preface 1. Understanding the Microservices Concepts 2. The Microservice Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Internal Patterns 4. Microservice Ecosystem 5. Shared Data Microservice Design Pattern 6. Aggregator Microservice Design Pattern 7. Proxy Microservice Design Pattern 8. Chained Microservice Design Pattern 9. Branch Microservice Design Pattern 10. Asynchronous Messaging Microservice 11. Microservices Working Together 12. Testing Microservices 13. Monitoring Security and Deployment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

End-to-end tests

The end-to-end tests are conceptually similar to integration tests, but they validate the entire business flow of the application. The main purpose of this type of test is to check whether any flow stages are corrupted. Many developers get confused about the difference between end-to-end and integration tests.

Let's say the big difference is that the integration tests validate the integration of a part of the application with other microservices, tools, or vendors. However, end-to-end tests validate an application business flow and not the integration with a smaller follow-up.

It is possible to have several end-to-end tests validating several different flows. In the case of our application, the flow that we are going to test is as follows:

  1. Create a user.
  2. Create a news article for each type of news service (famous, politics, and sports).
  3. Search for all...
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