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Is integration-testing all services the best approach?
I am building an API project, where I have a controller called C1, which calls service S1. Within this service, there are multiple method invocations to services S2and S3 and S4, as well as a call to ...
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Automated Testing classes with an injected DbContext [duplicate]
I've been working on an implementation of a service, and have found that there are a number of operations where I need to read from a database to provide a caller with certain data or objects.
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Scope of integration tests
I'm programming a .NET WebApi application from services.
What is the scope of an integration test within the following schema?
Order creation scenario:
Order is created
-> stored in db
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Automation of workflow for automated testing
What are your opinions on writing "production" code to facilitate testing?
Specifically, the use case is this: we have a system with a multiple step workflow, where a few stages are done by ...
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Simulating different times of day when running integration tests, .NET/XUnit
I work on an organization's internal .NET Core 8 application where various dates are stored in different canonical formats, and some comparisons (checking that the current moment falls between a data ...
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Is Spring Boot Unit Test Coverage with Integration tests only a bad practice?
I have recently come across a few codebases at work where the previous developers chose to reach the >80% coverage criteria by writing only integration tests with the @SpringBootTest annotation ...
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Does unit testing spot bugs that QA testing typically does not?
By QA testing I mean like say integration testing, system testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing and the like. If unit testing is skipped altogether would bugs that typically are spotted ...
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Ensuring unit test data stays accurate
Say I have a method that expects data to be in some form to perform accurately. In the actual service/application flow, that data is formed upstream in other methods or services. How can I ensure the ...
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Why was integration tests using Spring Test framework designed to need @Transactional annotation in the @Test method by default?
Based on the documentation on Spring testing: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/testing/testcontext-framework/tx.html#testcontext-tx-enabling-transactions
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Would a middle ground between unit and integration tests be optimal
I've read many posts about unit tests only testing one object/class and mocking of objects should only be for direct dependencies of the object under tests. The only other option discussed for ...
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Approach for implementing access permission tests for a large number of actions and multiple affiliations
I'm obviously having trouble creating a question that fits StackExchange guidelines in regard of opinions vs metrics. Any help to improve this question is highly appreciated.
I'm searching for a ...
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Integration testing strategy for a volatile domain
Imagine following scenario:
Our team is working on a mobile project in biometrics. The team delivers a client facing SDK. Our work relies on another internal team, that is delivering algorithms in a ...
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How to avoid too much mocking in unit tests in a database-heavy method?
I have a service method, acceptOrDenyJoinRequest, which follows a fairly complex flow (as depicted in this diagram):
In my unit tests, the implementation details of this method are heavily reflected. ...
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Should I skip unit tests if integration tests cover the same scenarios?
I have a service method called acceptOrDenyJoinRequest that follows a logic similar to this flowchart (green boxes are ignored in code, and the light gray box calls an external service). According to ...
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How to follow Outside-In TDD with Micro-services and Micro-frontends?
I was exploring TDD, specifically the Outside-In TDD pattern, where we need to write the acceptance (integration) test and then jump on to granular unit tests to implement the feature and make the ...
