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Building Microservices with .NET Core

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887833
Pages 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Lalit Kale Lalit Kale
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Manish Kanwar Manish Kanwar
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

1. What Are Microservices? 2. Building Microservices 3. Integration Techniques 4. Testing Strategies 5. Deployment 6. Security 7. Monitoring 8. Scaling 9. Reactive Microservices 10. Creating a Complete Microservice Solution

Testing pyramid


The testing pyramid is a strategy or a way to define what you should test in microservices. In other words, we can say it helps us define the testing scope of microservices. The concept of the testing pyramid was originated by Mike Cohn (http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/the-forgotten-layer-of-the-test-automation-pyramid) in 2009. There are various flavors of the testing pyramid; different authors have described this by indicating how they had placed or prioritized their testing scope. The following image depicts the same concept that was defined by Mike Cohn:

The Testing pyramid showcases how a well-designed test strategy is structured. When we closely look at it, we can easily notice how we should follow the testing approach for microservices (note that the testing pyramid is not specific to microservices). Let's start from the bottom of this pyramid. We can see that the testing scope is very limited with the use of Unit tests. As soon as we move to the top, our testing...

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