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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing A performance engineer's guide to the continuous testing and monitoring of microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133608
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dinesh Rajput Dinesh Rajput
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Preface 1. Software Architecture Patterns 2. Anatomy of Microservice Decomposition Services FREE CHAPTER 3. Microservices Deployment Patterns 4. Inter-Service Communication 5. Service Registry and Discovery 6. External API Gateway 7. Testing of Microservices 8. Performance Testing of Microservices 9. Performance Monitoring of Microservices 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Unit testing

When it comes to testing units for microservices, unit test cases only cover a single microservice. We could have a number of unit test cases for a microservice, where the unit test depends on what language we are using in the development of that microservice. It also depends on the framework being used in development.

A unit can consist of a line of code, a method, or a class. Unit testing refers to testing a particular unit for any bugs or issues. Optimally, the smaller the unit is, the better it is, because this allows testing on a more granular level, and gives a more accurate view of how well the overall code is performing. The most important factor of unit testing is that, by running many small tests, instead of one big test, you can complete the testing process in a matter of seconds or minutes, instead of hours, depending on the size of the code. See the...

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