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If you wrote a test around 429s and backoff, what should the test prove first?

Multiple choiceHardchapter-12-curatedpremiumhttp-integration429s-and-backoff

python

if response.status_code == 429:
    time.sleep(backoff_seconds)

That the rule behaves correctly at the boundary cases the lesson is trying to make explicit.Keep 429s and backoff implicit so the script stays short and hope the next engineer infers the rule.Delay clarity until production traffic reveals the edge case and then patch it under pressure.Solve the symptom with comments only and avoid changing the code shape around 429s and backoff.

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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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