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https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviv-kerbel/?originalSubdomain=il& It’s been almost a decade since I started developing full time, and almost four of those years were spent developing in a https://thenewstack.io/category/microservices/-based environment. Or maybe just not worth it, because I found it took more time than writing the code itself!
When we tried to build backend E2E tests, here are the options that we tried and tested: Option one: Log-based testing
Even better, using the trace visualization tool, a developer can visually create a test directly from a trace.
Using distributed tracing testing is the right answer — it allows developers to properly test their microservices, since it provides a holistic view of all microservices.
Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.