microservices testing

Testing in Micro-services

ArchitectureVaruna Srivastava

BangaloreAugust 22nd 2015

Agenda

• Why MicroServices• Monolithic to MicroServices Architecture• Challenges In Testing• Demo using MockServer

No Free Lunch

API

Monolithic Enterprise to Microservice Architecture

Multiple services work together as a system…. ..to provide business feature

Traditional Testing Approach

New Perspective in Testing

Validating small component

Persistence

CertificationAddress

Micro Service Interactions

Certification

Address

Payment

Challenges

• Dependency Management• Tackle a Session• Distributed System Complexity (Decentralized

Database)• Managing Test Data• Contract Documentation

#1 Dependency Management

Dependency Management

Dependency Management

#2 Session Management

Session Management

#3 Decentralized Database

#4

• Mock Test Data Service environment specific

#5 Contract Documentation

Address Contract Documentation

SnowCrash

snowcrash Address.md

• • Aglio -i Address.md –o

Address.html Dredd Address.md

Some Tricks

• Focus on one service end point at a time• Define the boundary of test• Make sure services are designed to support different

content type.

Mock Server