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Service Dependency Testing Basics

Test your upstreams and downstreams

Testing dependencies means mocking or staging upstreams, validating contracts, injecting timeouts/errors, and ensuring fallbacks so your service degrades gracefully when others fail.

Contract Test

Validate schemas and expectations with mocks or partner suites.

Simulate Failures

Test timeouts, errors, slowdowns, and partial responses.

Fallback

Use caches, defaults, or graceful degradation when deps break.

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