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Maxi Contieri @mcsee1

Streamline Your API Tests: Focus On Primitive Steps

Streamline API tests by focusing on primitive steps, not direct requests. Reduce unnecessary calls, slow performance & overcomplicated validations.

Streamline Your API Tests: Less is More

TL;DR: Use primitive steps to verify API behavior instead of direct requests.

  
  
  Problems

Unnecessary API calls
Slow test performance
Overcomplicated validations
Fragile tests
Slow feedback loops
Maintainability
Misleading test results

  
  
  Solutions

Test primitive outcomes
Validate responses directly
Avoid extra API steps
Simplify test logic

  
  
  Context

When you test an API, you might fall into the trap of using multiple API requests to verify a single operation.
Making a POST and immediately making a GET to check the existence of the...