Building an Engineering‑Grade Full‑Link API Test Suite for Spring Boot: From Unit Tests to Production Load Testing
The article explains why many Spring Boot services still crash in production despite passing unit and integration tests, defines a full‑link testing concept that covers code correctness, component collaboration, contract stability, end‑to‑end business flow, and production‑scale performance, and provides a layered, risk‑driven testing architecture with concrete code examples, tooling, and CI/CD integration.
