QA · Mid-level · System design

How would you organize testing for a system of fifteen microservices that communicate over REST and message queues?

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This checks whether you understand the testing pyramid for a distributed system: an emphasis on isolated and contract tests instead of heavy end-to-end tests, the ability to test asynchronous interaction and failures, and accounting for services being released independently.

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microservices contract testing test strategy

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