Testing in a Microservices Architecture

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Nubank built its system on microservices and faced end-to-end testing becoming a deployment bottleneck as new features and services appeared. The talk explains how they adopted contract testing to address that bottleneck and describes the evolution and the current structure of their tests.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 4:42Microservices in practice
3. 10:21Current test pyramid
4. 16:13Unit and integration tests
5. 21:20Contract testing explained
6. 27:43Implementing contract tests
7. 30:54Testing challenges and evolution
8. 33:22Q&A

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