Matthew ReinboldThis new Net API Notes newsletter took awhile to 'bake' - Cutting the Gordian Knot of Consumer API Testing - https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-consumer
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"On first blush, testing an API would be straightforward. However, if API producers aren't careful, their good-faith efforts to support consumer testing can devolve into a mess of environmental dependencies. In this edition of my Net API Notes, I will outline a common corner that API teams paint themselves into and suggest an alternative. To the note!" https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-consumer
"And here's where opportunistic thinking can get the production team in trouble. The API producers may look at the array of environments already existing for the production lifecycle and assume that fulfilling the consumer need is as easy as providing access to the appropriate 'lower' environment. The consumer wants to test and, what luck, one of the existing environments is already named 'test'! What luck!
"Except...Shared Develop Environments are a Form of Coupling."
https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-consumer