Generating a mock server from an OpenAPI spec with GPT

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1. A frontend team needs to start building their user interface before the backend API is complete. What tool allows them to simulate API responses based on a documented specification?

   1. A real API gateway
   2. A database migration script
   3. A load balancing proxy
   4. A mock server generated from the OpenAPI specification

2. When prompting an LLM to generate a mock server from an OpenAPI YAML file, which instruction ensures the server returns realistic example data?

   1. Copy the production database schema
   2. Use placeholder text like 'TODO' for all responses
   3. Return the example values defined in the spec for each endpoint
   4. Generate random UUIDs for all response fields

3. What capability does adding a '?delay=ms' query parameter provide in an AI-generated mock server?

   1. It modifies the response format to include delay metadata
   2. It simulates network latency by artificially slowing responses
   3. It enables caching of delayed responses
   4. It automatically retries failed requests

4. An AI-generated mock server cannot accurately simulate which aspect of a real production backend?

   1. Endpoint paths
   2. HTTP status codes
   3. Response body format
   4. Behavior under heavy concurrent load

5. What is the purpose of contract testing in an API development workflow that uses mock servers?

   1. To deploy the API to production
   2. To generate random test data
   3. To create user documentation
   4. To verify that the real service matches the OpenAPI specification

6. A team discovers their AI-generated mock returns different field names than their production API. What should they do to prevent this from causing problems?

   1. Switch to a different programming language
   2. Remove the OpenAPI documentation
   3. Run contract tests that compare the real service against the specification
   4. Update the mock to match production

7. What does 'error injection' refer to in the context of mock servers?

   1. Programmatically generating error responses like 500 or 404
   2. Adding test comments to code
   3. Injecting real user data into mocks
   4. Compiling error-handling functions

8. Why is it important to schedule regular contract test jobs in a project using AI-generated mocks?

   1. Contract tests replace the need for mocks
   2. Contract tests improve AI generation speed
   3. Mocks gradually drift from production reality and must be caught
   4. Mocks need to be recompiled daily

9. When both frontend and backend teams have a shared OpenAPI specification, what development benefit can they achieve?

   1. They must wait for one team to finish before the other starts
   2. They eliminate the need for any testing
   3. They can skip code reviews
   4. They can work in parallel, with each team building against the same contract

10. A developer asks an LLM to generate an Express mock server from an OpenAPI YAML file. What framework is being used for the mock server?

    1. Angular
    2. Docker
    3. Express
    4. React

11. What type of data should an AI generate in each response handler of a mock server?

    1. Examples that conform to the OpenAPI specification schema
    2. Data from the production database
    3. JSON that fails validation
    4. Random nonsensical values

12. What problem occurs when a mock server's responses diverge from what the real production API actually returns?

    1. Testing becomes unnecessary
    2. Frontend code may break when switching to the real API
    3. The API specification is automatically updated
    4. Development speed increases

13. Which statement best describes what LLMs can do when generating mock servers from OpenAPI specs?

    1. Automatically deploy to cloud infrastructure
    2. Replace the entire backend implementation
    3. Predict production traffic patterns
    4. Generate handlers that return spec-conforming examples with configurable latency

14. A team wants their mock server to simulate a server that is temporarily unavailable. Which feature would allow this?

    1. Changing the API base URL
    2. Increasing the OpenAPI version number
    3. Error injection that returns 503 Service Unavailable
    4. Adding more endpoints to the spec

15. Why might a team choose to use a mock server instead of waiting for the real backend?

    1. To enable frontend development to proceed independently
    2. Because AI can generate the entire production system
    3. Because mock servers are more reliable than real APIs
    4. To avoid writing any code