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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Microservice Patterns and Best Practices Explore patterns like CQRS and event sourcing to create scalable, maintainable, and testable microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474030
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
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Preface 1. Understanding the Microservices Concepts 2. The Microservice Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Internal Patterns 4. Microservice Ecosystem 5. Shared Data Microservice Design Pattern 6. Aggregator Microservice Design Pattern 7. Proxy Microservice Design Pattern 8. Chained Microservice Design Pattern 9. Branch Microservice Design Pattern 10. Asynchronous Messaging Microservice 11. Microservices Working Together 12. Testing Microservices 13. Monitoring Security and Deployment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Unit tests

Unit tests are well-known and are already normative in the software development industry. There are a number of standards and practices for unit tests. However, the best practice for unit tests is to make sure that they are running every software built.

The unit tests are used to prove the smallest testable part of a computer program. In this sense, the great challenge is to write code that is testable; otherwise, it will be impossible to apply the unit tests.

An important feature is that unit tests only prove the code unit segment. Imagine that we are going to test a function that communicates with the database. When we create the unit test, we have to use a mechanism so that the function test does not touch the database. The mechanism is commonly known as a mock. When applying a mock to the unit test, we isolate the function we want to test, then any possible changes...

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