Note from the publisher: You have managed to find some of our old content and it may be outdated and/or incorrect. Try searching in our docs or on the blog for current information. [Photo credit to @manp] There’s a lot of challenges in testing your code against 3rd party APIs, so I’m going to explain some best practices that we’ve come up with or seen customers use over time at CircleCI. There are
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