{"id":1395,"date":"2016-06-24T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:23:12","slug":"5-approaches-for-automating-microservices-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/5-approaches-for-automating-microservices-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Approaches for Automating Microservices Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microservices is not a new concept. It has been in use for more than a decade now by giants such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. When you search for something on Google, to retrieve the relevant results, Google calls out to almost 70 microservices.<\/p>\n
So what really is a Microservice?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Microservices” is a yet another term added to the already crowded streets of software architecture. The microservice architectural style involves developing single applications that can work together as a suite of small services, each running in its individual process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms such as an HTTP resource API. These services require bare minimum centralized management, use different data storage technologies, and can be written in different programming languages. These services, built around business capabilities, can also be deployed independently by machinery that supports fully automated deployment.<\/p>\n SOA vs. Microservices<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The typical service oriented architecture (SOA) model usually has dependent enterprise service buses (ESBs), with microservices using faster messaging mechanisms. While SOA focuses on imperative programming, the microservices architecture uses a programming style that focuses on a responsive-actor as its base. While SOA models usually have an outsized RDBMS, microservices frequently use databases such as NoSQL or micro-SQL that can be connected to conventional databases. That said, the real difference lies in the architecture methods that are used for creating an integrated set of services.<\/p>\n The practices that are used for the microservices architecture have been created based on the practices followed by developers for creating software applications for large enterprise organizations. The experience of developers comes in very handy to understand what are the expectations of today\u2019s end users, and helps create a consistent, yet dynamic experience across a wide range of devices. Cloud-based applications that are accessible, adaptable, modular, and scalable are in high demand. This has led many developers to change their approach.<\/p>\n Testing Microservices<\/strong><\/span>
\nA microservices architecture consists of focused, small services that together create a complete application or task. Every instance of a microservice represents a single responsibility within your application. The real advantage is that, these services are independent of one another, which makes them independently deployable and testable.<\/p>\n