How To Test Your API Integration
Read OriginalThis article argues that testing API integrations requires more than just validating against an OpenAPI schema. It emphasizes that APIs have critical behaviors and side-effects (like triggering webhooks or asynchronous jobs) that aren't captured in standard definitions. Using the example of a recent GitHub API outage, the author explains why mocking based solely on data models is insufficient and highlights the 'invisible' operational aspects of running an API.
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