Testing Through API's

09/27/12 • -1 min

Download the Podcast We recently got a question from Tomas Vykruta, a colleague of ours, and we felt it turned out to be such a good, fruitful question that we wanted to pass it, and our answers, along in this blog. Here is Tomas' question: Do you prefer to have unit tests written against the public API, or to test individual functions inside the API? I've seen both approaches at my company,

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Download the podcast Chain Composition Behaviors We always design services for multiple clients. Even if a service (like the Processor service in our example) has only a single client today, we want to allow for multiple clients in the future. In fact, we want to promote this; any effort expended to create a service will return increasing value when multiple clients end up using