QA · Mid-level · Theory

How would you test a REST endpoint for creating an order, POST /orders? What would you check besides a successful response?

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This checks whether the candidate can test an API systematically, not just the happy path: the contract, actual persistence of data, validation, security, business rules, idempotency and side effects.

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