Comment by yellowapple
12 days ago
> Some APIs are very stable, and testing against the API itself can hit rate limiting, bans, and other anti-abuse mechanisms that introduce all kinds of instability to your test suite.
Those rate limits, bans, and other anti-abuse mechanisms are things that would be good to uncover and account for during tests. Better for the test suite to detect those potential failures than the production deployment :)
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