Validate an Integration as a Business Flow, Not Just an API Response
A practical checklist for validating records, retries, exceptions, and downstream ownership as one business flow.
Follow the record, not just the response
An HTTP success can still leave a business process incomplete. Check what was accepted, persisted, transformed, and made visible to the next owner.
Exercise the exception path
Confirm how retries behave, where duplicates are handled, and how an unresolved item is found. Write down the expected owner for each state.
Leave a usable record
Capture the input, expected outcome, observed outcome, and the environment conditions. This is general guidance, not a record of client validation work.