Run a practical lab
Project 1: checkout confidence
Scope: one item, quantity changes and required customer fields. Define expected totals before running checks. Cover successful confirmation and rejected incomplete input; explain what payment behaviour is outside the project.
Project 2: order-service contract
Scope: create and retrieve a synthetic order in a controlled service. Define expected status and required response fields with the service contract. Keep setup and cleanup explicit so repeated runs do not pollute shared data.
Project 3: investigate a failure
Scope: introduce a deliberate change in your own sample application that breaks one expected result. Capture the failed run and identify whether the requirement, implementation or check needs to change.
Prepare a portfolio walkthrough
Describe the user risk, your contribution, how to reproduce the work and what remains untested. Separate your own reasoning from generated code or mentor suggestions. A small reproducible project is easier to evaluate than unexplained screenshots.
API review lab: a 200 response is not the whole result
Fictional contract: a GET request for order demo-42 must return that order ID, status pending and total 200. Sample response: HTTP 200 with body { id: 'demo-42', status: 'confirmed', total: 100 }.
Compare your reasoning with the review checklist
- The HTTP status matches the sample contract, and the returned ID is correct.
- The status and total violate the contract: expected pending and 200, observed confirmed and 100.
- For a real test, assert the agreed HTTP status and parsed response fields. A successful status alone does not validate business data.
- A GET response does not independently prove durable storage, payment processing or authorisation. Those require separate evidence and agreed scenarios.
- Ask what an unknown order and an unauthorised caller should receive before writing negative tests. Do not invent the service contract.
Work to keep: Submit a field-by-field expected/actual table, a concise defect report and two unanswered contract questions.
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Compare with the checkout review exercise →
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Official references
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