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Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

You're reading from   Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5 Build cloud-ready, reactive systems with Spring 5 and Project Reactor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284951
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Lozynskyi Igor Lozynskyi
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Preface 1. Why Reactive Spring? FREE CHAPTER 2. Reactive Programming in Spring - Basic Concepts 3. Reactive Streams - the New Streams' Standard 4. Project Reactor - the Foundation for Reactive Apps 5. Going Reactive with Spring Boot 2 6. WebFlux Async Non-Blocking Communication 7. Reactive Database Access 8. Scaling Up with Cloud Streams 9. Testing the Reactive Application 10. And, Finally, Release It! 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why are reactive streams hard to test?

Nowadays, enterprise applications are enormous. This is why the verification of such systems is a very important stage in any modern development life cycle. However, we should remember that in large systems there are a vast number of components and services, which in turn may include a large number of classes. For this reason, we should follow the Test Pyramid suggestions in order to cover everything. Here, the basic part of system testing is unit testing.

In our case, the subject of the testing is code written using the reactive programming technique. As we discovered in Chapter 3, Reactive Streams - the New Streams' Standard and Chapter 4Project Reactor - the Foundation for Reactive Apps, reactive programming gives us a bunch of benefits. The first of these is the ability to optimize resource usage by enabling asynchronous...

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