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Do you run tests against real APIs? If not, how do you usually check that the API is actually working in the tests, do you mock it, recreate the logic, or rely on something else?
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What are you calling a real API ? Do you mean a third party API ?
If yes, I write 2 types of tests :
a first test where I only inject the data with the same format as the one coming from the API, you can effectively mock the function from which you call the API
a second test in real conditions where I don't mock the function and where I really use the API, but according to me this test is less important than the first one
I’ve already replied to your post on Reddit, Blissling @cushty: https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1n7kdp9/comment/nc8517p/
Saloon has nice mechanism of testing using fake responses generated from real responses, look here: https://docs.saloon.dev/the-basics/testing
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