Authorization tests for coding agent changes

Authorization testing verifies that users, services, and other actors can perform only policy-permitted actions, helping detect security regressions from coding-agent changes that may leave normal workflows functioning while exposing unauthorized routes or objects. Effective tests should derive from the actual policy source and cover meaningful distinctions involving roles, ownership, tenant boundaries, expired or revoked privileges, anonymous access, and resource changes, with clear fixtures that specify the permissions being tested. Each permitted scenario should have a closely related denial case that verifies both the response and the lack of side effects or data leakage across interfaces such as APIs, browser controls, GraphQL, background jobs, bulk operations, collection queries, and exports. Cached authorization decisions also require tests confirming that revocations and tenant changes take effect immediately under controlled cache conditions. Reviews should link permission changes to policy requirements, examine migrations and defaults that could expand access, and use security-focused automated tools as complements to—not replacements for—policy-level tests, while avoiding production credentials and pausing work when policies or safe representative identities are unclear.

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