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Use different integration testing strategies depending on API consumer
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Laila Winner committed Oct 30, 2015
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* Follow Heroku's [HTTP API Design Guide]
* Use a fast JSON parser, e.g. [`oj`][oj]
* Write [request specs] for your API endpoints
* Write integration tests for your API endpoints. When the primary consumer of
your API is an in-app JavaScript client, write [feature specs]. Otherwise
write [request specs].

[HTTP API Design Guide]: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design
[oj]: https://github.com/ohler55/oj
[feature specs]: https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/feature-specs/feature-spec
[request specs]: https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/request-specs/request-spec

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@malandrina Could you please elaborate more on what do you mean by an in-app Javascript client ? What are your thoughts on including an e.g., of the same in the guideline to help people of varying skill level(like me) to better understand this ?

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