Why is Software Testing for Microservices so critical?
Microservices Testing Businesses are finding the processing of real time data accessed by smartphones and other digital devices a herculean task. This is due to the increased load on conventional enterprise systems posed by such data leading to cost overruns on infrastructure and its maintenance. The rapidly changing dynamics of digital business has necessitated IT organizations to overhaul their application architectures. To address the demands of modern business, IT organizations are moving from the existing monolithic architecture of collaborating components to the one that is both discreet and modular. In the latter, that is, the microservices architecture, individual services interact with each other remotely. To ensure these microservices perform to their optimum level, they should undergo a range of software testing exercise including unit testing, contract testing, integration testing, UI testing, and functional testing. What is a microservice archit...