Integration testing of REST services using Akka Http

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Framework built on akka-http that generates synchronous request builders and rich matchers (status, headers, body, JSON marshalling) and runs integration tests against an unchanged server locally without network. It includes programmable mock/stub servers that emulate external APIs (demoed with Google Translate), can start dozens of servers in milliseconds, and is used to validate and maintain 200+ microservices in production, reducing flakiness and dependency surprises.

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1. 0:00Introduction to integration testing
2. 2:07Engineering culture at Wix
3. 7:09REST testing evolution
4. 10:08Building requests with Akka HTTP
5. 17:31Validating API contracts
6. 22:37Testing with local servers
7. 27:14Mocking external APIs
8. 35:03Demo: Mocking Google Translate
9. 36:30Stub servers for unit tests
10. 39:29Summary and open source

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