# Testing Task Async

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/testing-task-async/20091>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** task, testing, learning-elixir\
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/testing-task-async/20091 "2019-02-11T16:48:46Z")\
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Task.async needs to do something your test can observe. Most often people make the code in the async send a message to the test process or another location, which is known and can be observed.

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