Testing · Senior · Question 3 of 75

What is the “testing honeycomb” and where is it used?

✓Correct answer: A shape for microservices: mostly integration tests of a service through its API, few implementation-detail unit tests and few integrated tests
2A pyramid with hexagonal test files
3A way to parallelize tests across CI machines

Explanation

Spotify's model fits services whose complexity lies in interactions rather than internal logic.

Further reading

Spotify Engineering: Testing of Microservices (honeycomb) ↗

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