Backend · Senior · Theory

How do you set up testing for a service that works with a database, a message broker and a couple of external APIs? What do you test at which level?

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The interviewer wants to see whether you can deliberately distribute tests across levels for a service with real infrastructure: where mocks lie, where you need a real database, how to test external dependencies and failures, and how to keep the test suite fast and stable.

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