Hello. I am writing my first server in elixir, and I am using the influxDB for storing time series data. So far I have enjoyed programming in elixir. But I am struggling to test my system. I have read this article: Mocks and explicit contracts « Plataformatec Blog and it did help me write Mock mod…

[image] roynalnaruto: The other way (simpler/less time consuming) is to simply have the DB run in the background while running tests. And create a different database for test purposes. But is this bad test design? This is very normal, and is also the way that people test when using Postgres a…

I do not mean to hijack this topic, but has anybody have tried to incorporate pgtap into their workflow (with elixir projects) and reached any meaningful conclusion, successes or failures in doing so?

Personally, I like setting up a docker environment. An example from a pet project: docker-compose.yml version: '3.3' services: app: build: context: . dockerfile: Dockerfile working_dir: /app command: 'mix phx.server' ports: - '4000:4000' volumes: - …

[image] roynalnaruto: I have read this article: Mocks and explicit contracts « Plataformatec Blog and it did help me write Mock modules for HTTP servers (for some HTTP requests my server makes) in order to test my GET/POST queries. But I am struggling to understand how I can simulate my databa…

Best Practice for testing database?

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roynalnaruto April 29, 2019, 3:35am 3

Yes, I do see some other projects also take this approach. I will do that as well. Thanks!