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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

You're reading from Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin Build reactive and cloud-native microservices with Kotlin using Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2.0

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788471459

Length 414 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Medina Iglesias

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Understanding Microservices FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2.0

3. Creating RESTful Services

4. Creating Reactive Microservices

5. Reactive Spring Data

6. Creating Cloud-Native Microservices

7. Creating Dockers

8. Scaling Microservices

9. Testing Spring Microservices

10. Monitoring Microservices

11. Deploying Microservices

12. Best Practices

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Index

Testing effectively

Testing is one of the most important elements of modern software development, and you should take care of it right at the beginning when you start to design your microservice. In this section, we will try to guide you with some suggestions on how to effectively test your microservice, however, really understanding testing requires a deeper look that you should cover eventually.

Understanding type of tests

There are several kinds of tests that you can carry out on microservices, but here are some of the most common ones that you should understand:

Unit tests
Integration tests
E2E tests

This is important to us because we should name our test according to what they are, either by naming the test class with the name of the type of test or classifying the package that refers to that type of test.

For example, if we have one Integration test for our controller that is named CustomerControllerTest, we could name it CustomerControlIntegrationTest, CustomerControllerIT, or leave it in...

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Authors (1)

Medina Iglesias

Medina Iglesias

Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias began his career 20 years ago as an indie game developer and worked abroad four countries since then, from embedded software to enterprise applications. He has a lifetime's dedication to software craftsmanship. Since 2006, he works at Santander Technology with a talented group of professionals who performed one of the biggest transformations in the banking industry. Nowadays, he works as a Senior Engineer in the Digital Transformation team within Santander Technology UK.

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