In this chapter, the user will explore various strategies for testing microservices, microservice input headers, and payload details. We will discuss different testing approaches for microservice applications within this chapter.
A microservice architecture consists of small, independently deployable, and single responsibility-focused services. These services can be aggregated together to make a complete business application. A single instance of a microservice must serve a single business responsibility in your business application. These services are independent of each other, and you can easily test and deploy each one individually.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Testing strategies for microservices
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Component testing
- Contract testing
- End-to-end testing
- UI/functional testing
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