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rhymes • Edited

Hi Adekoyejo, I'm honestly not an expert on this topic but I think the hardest thing is testing interaction between multiple services.

As you mentioned each service (which is a self contained app) should have its own unit and functional testing but you still need to test service A talking with B.

I would research the literature on it. Check Martin Flower's website and these resources:

Pattern: Service Integration Contract Test

Spotify's Testing of Microservices

Setting up integration testing seems also a really good way to design and discuss service boundaries. How would the client consume service A and B? Do you need A and B to then call service C? Do you have all services behind a single gateway so that it's transparent to the client?

There's no easy way to do microservices, that's for sure.