---
title: "Services + End-to-End Testing = Monolith"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/services-end-to-end-testing-monolith-3r76xwukr
source_url: http://microservices.io/post/architecture/2024/03/29/services-with-end-to-end-testing-equals-monolith.html
type: article
source: "Microservices.io"
published: 2024-03-29T17:33:08.666Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: ["architecture", "monolith"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Services + End-to-End Testing = Monolith

**[Microservices.io](https://daily.dev/sources/microservicesio)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the common anti-pattern of using end-to-end testing in microservices adoption. It explains why end-to-end testing undermines the benefits of microservices and suggests fixing the architecture instead of relying on it.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <http://microservices.io/post/architecture/2024/03/29/services-with-end-to-end-testing-equals-monolith.html>

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#monolith](https://daily.dev/tags/monolith)

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