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Building Microservices with Go

You're reading from   Building Microservices with Go Develop seamless, efficient, and robust microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468666
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nic Jackson Nic Jackson
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Testing

When you try to define what testing is, you will come up with a multitude of answers, and many of us will not understand the full benefits of testing until we've been burnt by buggy software or we have tried to change a complex code base which has no tests.

When I tried to define testing, I came up with the following:

"The art of a good night's sleep is knowing you will not get woken by a support call and the piece of mind from being able to confidently change your software in an always moving market."

OK, so I am trying to be funny, but the concept is correct. Nobody enjoys debugging poorly written code, and indeed, nobody enjoys the stress caused when a system fails. Starting out with a mantra of quality first can alleviate many of these problems.

Over the last 20 years, techniques like TDD have become commonplace. In some instances, it is not as...

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