Testing Back-End Services

How to approach testing

Now, this might be a tad opinionated, but we like to classify our tests into the following three categories and approach them differently:

• Functional testing

• Unit testing

• End-to-end testing

Functional testing

This kind of test helps us test an end-to-end functional flow that involves multiple smaller methods and modules working together to achieve a goal. Let’s take a stab at writing one.

Now, let’s run the test below. Once successful, we will see a “PASS” message indicating that our test passed!