In this article, Mikhail Golikov, the sole QA on a seven-team backend e-commerce platform, explains where each regression check belongs, in the browser or at the API. He shares the rule he actually uses, two bugs that only one layer could have caught, and the realization that finally made his browser suite small and stable. share share share share
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