How API contract testing catches breaking request, response, error, and schema changes before release with OpenAPI diffs, consumer examples, and CI compatibility checks.
A practical guide to API integration testing with real request boundaries, auth, persistence checks, failure cases, idempotency, concurrency, and response contracts.
Tests can pass while production still breaks when the suite proves the intended path but misses retries, concurrency, dirty data, rollout state, or ambiguous dependency behavior.