Integration testing for microservices with Spring Boot

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Covers challenges of testing and automating tests in a microservices environment, and presents practical examples of writing integration and component tests using the Spring Boot framework together with the TestContainers library. Aims to provide a beginner-friendly starting point for including microservices testing in an overall testing strategy.

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1. 0:00Microservice testing intro
2. 6:24Testing challenges
3. 10:01Unit tests role
4. 10:42Spring Boot DB tests
5. 18:35NoSQL integration tests
6. 20:05External service tests
7. 27:13Component tests in containers
8. 34:22Container testing benefits
9. 36:39Q&A

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