A semi-official blog dedicated to the Mojolicious web framework
Back on Day 9 we discussed testing and especially Test::Mojo. Today I want to just briefly talk about some practical things that can come up when testing real world applications. Once again the discussion will be motivated by the Wishlist application that we've been developing these past few days.
One of my applications is a pure-JavaScript UI for a JSON API. This UI is an entirely different project that communicates with a public API using an OpenAPI specification.
Our public API is huge and complex: To set up the public API, I need a database, sample data, and three other private API servers that perform individual tasks as directed by the public API. Worse, I would need to set up a lot of different test scenarios with different kinds of data.
It would be a lot easier to set up a mock public API that I could use to test my UI, and it turns out that Mojolicious makes this very easy.