3 REST API Testing Mistakes That Cost Us the Most Time (and How We Fixed Them)

Three common REST API testing mistakes that cause long-term maintenance pain: treating the OpenAPI spec as mere documentation instead of a source of truth, mixing contract and business assertions in the same test, and over-mocking external dependencies. The fixes involve using OpenAPI as a single canonical contract, splitting tests into contract tests (status codes, schema) and business tests (pricing, permissions, workflows), and adopting a three-layer testing strategy of unit, integration, and pre-release validation against real services. A bonus observation: authentication testing (OAuth flows, token refresh) now consumes significant CI time, with no clear industry consensus on the best approach.

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