The Test Pyramid

Introduction

In many projects, automated testing is a mystery. Everyone writes tests as they see fit because it is required by some dusted rule documented in a wiki, but no one can answer targeted questions about the team’s testing strategy.

This chapter provides a testing strategy for a Hexagonal Architecture. For each element of our architecture, we’ll discuss the type of test that covers it.

Let’s start the discussion about testing along the lines of the test pyramidThe test pyramid can be traced back to Mike Cohn’s book “Succeeding with Agile” from ...