Chapter 8: Testing Microservices

Questions:

1. What is the fundamental difference between unit tests and functional tests?
2. How can unit tests and functional tests work together?
3. Write Postman tests for all endpoints of the user service.
4. Write more sophisticated tests when verifying the responses (for example, check that the token contains the correct information).
5. Write unit tests verifying that the JWT functions in the user service are working correctly.

Answers:

1. Unit tests are for individual functions. Functional tests are undertaken to test the overall functionality of a service.
2. While unit tests ensure that foundational functions operate properly, functional tests will ensure that functions are working together as intended.
3. See GitHub.
4. See GitHub.
5. See GitHub.