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If you wrote a test around route handlers, what should the test prove first?

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python

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/orders/{order_id}")
def get_order(order_id: str) -> dict[str, str]:
    return {"order_id": order_id}

That the rule behaves correctly at the boundary cases the lesson is trying to make explicit.Delay clarity until production traffic reveals the edge case and then patch it under pressure.Keep route handlers implicit so the script stays short and hope the next engineer infers the rule.Solve the symptom with comments only and avoid changing the code shape around route handlers.

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A. That the rule behaves correctly at the boundary cases the lesson is trying to make explicit.

Why

Good tests make the design safer to change because they lock in the meaningful behavior rather than surface-level implementation details.

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