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5.8Key Takeaways
- Test error paths as thoroughly as success paths
- Error responses should be structured, informative, and free of internal details
- Rate limiting must exist and must include Retry-After headers
- Malformed requests should return 400, never 500
- Parameterize environments so the same suite runs against dev, staging, and production
- Tag destructive tests to prevent accidental data modification in production