Luca Palmieri discusses his HTTP mocking crate, wiremock-rs, and the challenges of black-box testing in a microservice environment.

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:04 Agenda
00:03:05 Unit vs Black Box Tests
00:06:46 Disadvantage of Unit Tests
00:07:57 How software is really used
00:09:22 Black box tests allow you to refactor
00:10:55 Anatomy of a microservice
00:13:45 Implications for testing
00:16:18 wiremock
00:23:13 Exploring a codebase with wiremock
00:25:42 Recap
00:28:00 Q&A
00:29:50 Q: does wiremock work with gRPC?
00:32:01 Q: can wiremock be set up as a proxy?
00:35:25 Q: what are the advantages over HTTPmock?
00:37:29 Q: what about other protocols besides HTTP?

#rust #microservice #wiremock-rs