Which kind of test should I use when dealing with External Endpoints?

Question

My app has a large dependency on external endpoints. As time passes some of them are changing and evolving. Some of these changes are breaking changes...

So far i have about 10 dependencies for a single project (i have other side-projects too) and keeping it up-to-date is not the easiest task of all...

Integration tests seems too broad and too complex to manage this scenario...

What other kind of tests should i consider for my apps? Is there a way to have theses tests run automatically like once a day also?

Answer 1

@leonardo tks for remminding me about this...
So, after alot of searching and studying I decided to use contract testing to deal with the ever evolving external dependencies and plain old API tests (automated by telerik) to test it’s functionalities…

Answer 2

In my company, we have recently implemented the contract testing with a very simple integration of Postman + Newman + Jenkins.

We use Postman as IDE for coding the tests and the assertions, Newman as Postman command line interpreter and Jenkins as CI system.

I have checked Telerik and looks like it has no free plan. So, I thought that you might be interested also in the "Postman approach".