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February 22, 2023
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Testing Strategy for a Distributed System: Unit, Integration, and Contract Tests
Unit tests give fast feedback. Integration tests give confidence. Contract tests catch the API drift between services that integration tests miss until staging. All three are necessary.
Unit tests give fast feedback. Integration tests give confidence. Contract tests catch the API drift between services that integration tests miss until staging. All three are necessary.
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- distributed-systems
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