Break the API Test Data Bottleneck: Real Scenarios on Real Systems
summary
Demo shows how to capture live traffic with Specmatic Live Proxy, reverse‑engineer an OpenAPI spec from real requests, and generate validated mocks and examples that replace only chosen endpoints while passing others through. It demonstrates creating empty or huge plan payloads, injecting transient delay injection and one‑off responses, and running the whole flow from capture to repeatable Playwright automation. Examples are schema‑validated before runtime so simulations stay consistent with the live API.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11Testing deployed apps challenges
- 3:59Test data beast impact
- 7:13Realistic testing mindset
- 8:19Live proxy for test data
- 15:26Live proxy demo
- 18:22Edge cases simulation
- 20:54Live proxy integration
- 24:04Automating live proxy
- 25:07Test strategy takeaways
- 28:16Q&A
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