Testing your code inside Docker

In this section, we will take you through a journey in which we will show you how TDD is done using stubs, and how Docker can come handy in developing software in the deployment equivalent system. For this purpose, we take a web application use case that has a feature to track the visit count of each of its users. For this example, we use Python as the implementation language and redis as the key-value pair database to store the users hit count. Besides, to showcase the testing capability of Docker, we limit our implementation to just two functions: hit and getHit.

Note

NOTE: All the examples in this chapter use python3 as the runtime environment. The ubuntu 14.04 installation comes with python3 by default. If you don't have python3 installed on your system, refer to the respective manual to install python3.

As per the TDD practice, we start by adding unit test cases for the hit and getHit functionalities, as depicted in the following code snippet. Here, the...