Testing Microservices with Mountebank (eBook)

SummaryTesting Microservices with Mountebank is your guide to the ins and outs of testing microservices with service virtualization. The book offers unique insights into microservices application design and state-of-the-art testing practices that will deepen your microservices skills and improve your applications.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyEven if you lab test each service in isolation, it's challengingand potentially dangerousto test a live microservices system that's changing and growing. Fortunately, you can use Mountebank to "e;imitate"e; the components of a distributed microservices application to give you a good approximation of the runtime conditions as you test individual services.About the BookTesting Microservices with Mountebank introduces the powerful practice of service virtualization. In it, author Brandon Byars, Mountebank's creator, offers unique insights into microservices application design and state-of-the-art testing practices. You'll expand your understanding of microservices as you work with Mountebank's imposters, responses, behaviors, and programmability. By mastering the powerful testing techniques in this unique book, your microservices skills will deepen and your applications will improve. For real.What's insideThe core concepts of service virtualizationTesting using canned responsesProgramming MountebankPerformance testingAbout the ReaderWritten for developers familiar with SOA or microservices systems.About the AuthorBrandon Byars is the author and chief maintainer of Mountebank and a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks.Table of ContentsPART 1 - FIRST STEPSTesting microservicesTaking mountebank for a test drivePART 2 - USING MOUNTEBANKTesting using canned responsesUsing predicates to send different responsesAdding record/replay behaviorProgramming mountebankAdding behaviorsProtocolsPART 3 - CLOSING THE LOOPMountebank and continuous deliveryPerformance testing with mountebank