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Mastering Elixir

You're reading from   Mastering Elixir Build and scale concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472678
Length 574 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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André Albuquerque André Albuquerque
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Daniel Caixinha Daniel Caixinha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing for the Journey Ahead 2. Innards of an Elixir Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Processes – The Bedrock of Concurrency and Fault Tolerance 4. Powered by Erlang/OTP 5. Demand-Driven Processing 6. Metaprogramming – Code That Writes Itself 7. Persisting Data Using Ecto 8. Phoenix – A Flying Web Framework 9. Finding Zen through Testing 10. Deploying to the Cloud 11. Keeping an Eye on Your Processes 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Finding Zen through Testing

At this point, in terms of functionality, our ElixirDrip application is finished. However, we don't have any tests yet, so it's not really ready to be deployed to a live environment. Although we've left out testing to the end, we want to point out that this isn't the way we normally develop applications. We're big supporters of creating your tests incrementally, as you build the features of your application. However, we think that such an approach would be confusing, bringing more harm than good to the readability of this book.

Hence, we've condensed in this chapter all the types of testing we'll explore. We won't cover every module and function of ElixirDrip, but we'll go through all the concepts necessary to test everything in this application. We will not cover every type of testing there is—for...

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