Summary

In this chapter, you learned that integration testing focuses on the scope of UIs or APIs exposed via your services to test the full stack of your code. It requires setting up the database, executing the code to be tested, and querying the database. These tests are critical to ensuring that all the components of your application deliver the expected behavior.

This chapter also introduced unit testing. Here, you learned that in order to make individual code components, classes, and methods as robust and future-proof as possible, developers can test each method in isolation without incurring the overhead of setting up the database or updating it. As such, unit tests run more quickly. Unit tests can increase coverage, as more corner-case testing scenarios can be emulated using the mocking of scenarios that would otherwise be impossible or difficult to set up on the database.

One key lesson of this chapter was that unit testing requires an understanding of some other patterns...