---
title: Testing tasks
description: See how tasks in Loco are a simple linear workflow with access to your full app context, and how to easily test them. You can write a linear business workflow and test it giving it input and asserting its output.
pubDate: 2024-06-18
updatedDate: 2024-06-18
authors:
- team-loco
episode: "005"
youtube: 485JlLA-T6U
---
Reference material for this episode:
* Loco.rs docs: [routes in controllers](https://loco.rs/docs/processing/task/)
* The [SaaS starter](https://loco.rs/docs/getting-started/starters/#saas-starter)
* The [REST API starter](https://loco.rs/docs/getting-started/starters/#rest-api-starter)
* The [Lightweight starter](https://loco.rs/docs/getting-started/starters/#lightweight-service-starter)