# Test Scenario 14: Software Development - API Design & Documentation Best Practices

## 🏢 **Industry Context**: Software Development/Tech
**Role**: Technical Lead  
**Task**: Research API design patterns and documentation strategies for microservices architecture

## 📋 **Scenario Description**
You're leading the development of a microservices platform for a SaaS company. You need to research REST API design best practices, OpenAPI documentation standards, authentication patterns, and testing strategies to ensure scalable and maintainable system architecture.

## 🎯 **Your Mission (Completely Autonomous)**

### **Step 1: Setup FSS-Mini-RAG**
1. Read the repository README.md to understand how to install FSS-Mini-RAG
2. Follow the installation instructions for your platform
3. Verify the installation works by running `rag-mini --help`

### **Step 2: Gather Research Materials**
Create a folder called `api-design-research` and populate it with relevant documentation:
- REST API design principles and best practices
- OpenAPI specification and documentation standards
- API authentication and security patterns
- Microservices architecture design guidelines
- API testing and monitoring strategies

**Sources to explore**:
- API design and development best practices guides
- OpenAPI and Swagger documentation resources
- Microservices architecture patterns and case studies
- API security and authentication frameworks
- Software testing and quality assurance resources

### **Step 3: Index and Search**
1. Use FSS-Mini-RAG to index your `api-design-research` folder
2. Perform searches to answer these questions:
   - "What are the REST API design principles for scalable systems?"
   - "How should API documentation be structured using OpenAPI?"
   - "What authentication patterns work best for microservices?"
   - "How should API versioning be managed?"
   - "What testing strategies ensure API reliability?"

### **Step 4: Document Your Findings**
Write your findings in `RESULTS.md` including:
- API design patterns and architectural principles
- Documentation standards and tooling recommendations
- Security and authentication implementation strategies
- Version management and backward compatibility
- Testing and monitoring framework recommendations

### **Step 5: Evaluation**
Rate FSS-Mini-RAG's effectiveness for:
- Finding specific information across multiple documents
- Searching complex documentation efficiently
- Helping with research and analysis workflows
- Overall usefulness for software development/tech industry applications

## 📁 **Deliverables**
- `api-design-research/` folder with research materials
- `RESULTS.md` with findings and FSS-Mini-RAG evaluation
- Documentation of your search queries and discoveries

## ⏱️ **Expected Duration**: 2-3 hours

## 🎓 **Learning Objectives**
- Test FSS-Mini-RAG with software development/tech industry content
- Evaluate search effectiveness with domain-specific documentation
- Assess usefulness for professional research workflows in software development/tech