Mocking services

Sam and Ryan chat about the pros and cons of using third-party services, focusing on how their use affects the strategy used to test your application.

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Intro

• 0:43 – If services don’t provide testing utils, you have to write library code just to test your app. What was the mocking story like for popular Rails services?

• 11:59 – Adding seams to service integrations so they can be used locally, offline and in testing

• 28:18 – How are people testing their service code today?

• 48:02 – Mocking vs. end-to-end testing

Links:

• Stefan Penner’s tweet about how critical it is for services to making testing easy