Testing Main Paths with System Tests

Learn how to test the main paths of your application with the help of system tests.

On top of the pyramid are system tests. A system test starts up the whole application and runs requests against its APIApplication Programming Interface, verifying that all our layers work in concert.

Send money system test

In a system test for the “Send Money” use case, we send an HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol request to the application and validate the response as well as the new balance of the account:

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