How do you replace portal mock data with live services safely?
Transition from fixtures to real APIs while retaining predictable contracts and accurate test evidence.
How do you replace portal mock data with live services safely?
Mock data helps build interface states, but it can hide assumptions about identifiers, ordering, errors, and timing. Replacing it requires deliberate integration checks.
Compare shapes and behavior
Verify the live response fields, types, pagination, and status values against fixtures. Remove hardcoded success paths and sample identifiers from production flows. Check that authentication and ownership come from the server rather than the mock layer.
Exercise real state changes
Create a development project, save an edit, reload, and retrieve the same data. Test a slow response and a genuine error path. Ensure generated files are stored and accessed through the intended service rather than a sample URL. Keep fixtures for isolated testing, but make their use explicit. Record which flows have live verification so a successful simulated test is not mistaken for a completed external integration.
Timing, errors, identifiers, pagination, optional fields, and authorization behavior.
Not necessarily. They remain useful for isolated tests when clearly separated from live application behavior.
The data can be retrieved after reload or a fresh request from the intended backend.
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