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API Design Review: Interface description checked and revised

A demo description in OpenAPI format with typical flaws: verbs in the path, lists without pagination, missing error responses, no authentication, dead references. The reviewer identifies them, the revised description passes.

Sample work (demo), not a client job. Built as a trial task with invented example data; the check figures below come from the automatic test run and are not polished.

What was built

  • Paths name things, lists have pagination, POST responds with Created
  • Every operation with operationId and error responses, common error format
  • Authentication and version in the path, all references resolve
  • Operation invented

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How it was checked

Automatic test run on 2026-10-31, taken from the log (test data invented, figures measured):

  • Demo interface: Before description 11 findings in 10 types, after 0
  • Bad counter-test 7 findings
  • 8 checks

Limits

What this sample does not cover, so nobody expects more:

  • The description is checked, not the running service
  • Contract tests against the actual service only with access and agreement
  • Technical fields and versioning strategy are clarified by the client

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