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PHP Microservices

You're reading from   PHP Microservices Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
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Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment 3. Application Design 4. Testing and Quality Control 5. Microservices Development 6. Monitoring 7. Security 8. Deployment 9. From Monolithic to Microservices 10. Strategies for Scalability 11. Best Practices and Conventions 12. Cloud and DevOps

The importance of using tests in your application

It is very important to use testing in our application because these steps can avoid (or at least reduce) future problems or errors that can appear as we are humans and can make mistakes during the development process or because the structure of the project is not correct or even the understanding of the developer does not match the requirements of the customer.

The testing process will help improve the code quality and understanding of the functionalities, do regression testing in order to avoid the inclusion of old issues in continuous integration and reduce the time taken to finish the project.

Testing is used to reduce the fails or errors in our application. Development teams spend a lot of time doing bug fixing and, depending on the moment of the discovery of the bugs, the impact can be bigger or smaller. The following image shows the relative cost of bug fixing related to the stage of the development:

The importance of using tests in your application

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