API Testing Strategy

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**Testing Pyramid for APIs:**
- Unit tests (70%): validate individual handlers, validators, and service methods in isolation
- Integration tests (20%): test the full request-response cycle against a real (test) database
- Contract tests (5%): verify producer-consumer agreements using Pact or OpenAPI schema validation
- E2E / load tests (5%): validate critical flows under realistic conditions before each release

**Contract Testing:**
- Define OpenAPI specs first (design-first); generate server stubs and client SDKs from the spec
- Use Pact for consumer-driven contract tests between microservices — provider verifies consumer contracts in CI
- Version your API contracts in source control; breaking changes require a new major version
- Run `openapi-schema-to-json-schema` to validate response bodies against the spec in integration tests

**Integration Testing:**
- Use a real database in integration tests (Docker Compose or Testcontainers) — not mocks
- Reset database state between tests with transactions (rollback) or truncation, never share state
- Test all HTTP status codes: 200, 201, 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, 429, 500
- Assert on response shape, not just status code; validate every field that consumers depend on

**Mock Strategies:**
- Mock at the network boundary (MSW, WireMock, nock) to test client code against realistic HTTP responses
- Never mock the module you are testing — mock its dependencies instead
- Use seeded test data factories (Faker + Factory pattern) for consistent, readable test fixtures
- Record and replay real API responses for third-party APIs using VCR-style libraries

**Test Data Management:**
- Maintain a `test/fixtures/` directory with canonical example requests and responses per endpoint
- Automate fixture regeneration from production-sanitized data on a weekly schedule
- Use database seeders for integration tests; never hardcode IDs — use lookups or factory references
- Tag sensitive fields in fixtures and scrub them automatically in CI pipeline

**Load & Performance Testing:**
- Establish baseline latency (p50, p95, p99) for every critical endpoint before optimizing
- Use k6 or Artillery for scripted load tests; store results as CI artifacts for trend comparison
- Test autoscaling behavior: ramp traffic up to 10x normal load and verify horizontal scale-out triggers
- Include rate-limit endpoints in load tests to verify 429 responses and retry-after headers work correctly

**CI Integration:**
- Run unit + integration tests on every PR; block merge on any failure
- Run contract tests on merge to main; notify the owning team if a contract is broken
- Schedule nightly load tests against staging; alert on p99 regression above 20%
- Publish a test coverage report and track coverage trend — set a minimum floor of 80% for handlers

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