As microservices and distributed applications quickly take over the development world - data integrity and security are more important than ever. A secure communication channel and limited data transfer between these loosely coupled systems are paramount. Most of the time, the end-user or service doesn't need to access the
Test "mocks" are objects that replace real objects while simulating their functions. A mock also has expectations about how the functions being tested will be used.
In some unit test cases we may want to combine the functionality of spies, to observe a method's behavior under call,
In software testing, a "spy" records how a function is used when it is tested. This includes how many times it was called, whether it was called with the correct arguments, and what was returned.
While tests are primarily used to validate the output of a function,
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably used Google Translate on many occasions in your life. Whenever you try to translate a word or a sentence from a certain language to another, it is the Google Translate API which brings you the desired results in the
Servers are computer software or hardware that processes requests and deliver data to a client over a network. Various types of servers exist, with the most common ones being web servers, database servers, application servers, and transaction servers.
Widely used web servers such as Apache, Monkey, and Jigsaw are
Testing an application means more than just clicking around until something breaks or trying different inputs until something isn't working right.
While this is a good way to find anything that might break on the user facing side of the application, due to misuse - what is being neglected
Docker is a widely accepted and used tool by leading IT companies to build, manage and secure their applications.
Containers, like Docker, allow developers to isolate and run multiple applications on a single operating system, rather than dedicating a Virtual Machine for each application on the server. The use
In professional IT circles, especially among data center specialists, Docker has been an extremely important topic for years. Containers have been used for a long time in computer science, and unlike other types of virtualization, containers are running at the top of the operating system kernel.
That being said,
