Testing and Sandbox Guidance
Run scenario-based testing in sandbox to validate lifecycle, failures, retries, and operational readiness before production.
#Purpose
Describes sandbox testing strategy for functional correctness and operational resilience.
#Integration prerequisites
- Sandbox credentials and isolated test data generation are available.
- Test harness can assert API responses and webhook side effects.
- Scenario matrix includes happy path, edge case, and failure case coverage.
#Request and response patterns
Each scenario should validate immediate API response semantics and eventual event-driven final-state convergence.
#Lifecycle and state model
- Execute happy-path scenario for each core workflow and verify terminal state.
- Inject expected failures (validation, auth, transient, throttling) and verify handling.
- Run replay/idempotency scenarios to prove duplicate-suppression behavior.
- Confirm reconciliation and observability hooks record complete test traces.
#Error and failure taxonomy
- Uncaught validation and schema mismatch paths.
- Incorrect retry behavior for terminal error classes.
- Webhook replay handling gaps causing duplicate side effects.
#Retry and idempotency guidance
Include explicit tests for uncertain outcomes (timeouts) to verify safe retries with stable idempotency keys.
#Observability and debugging entry points
- Per-scenario traces including request IDs and event IDs.
- Test pass/fail metrics grouped by error class and workflow type.
- Runbook validation evidence attached to scenario outcomes.