Testing MCP Servers: A Practical Guide for Developers
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You've built an MCP server. It works on your machine. But will it work when your colleague installs it? What about in production? MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers occupy a unique position in the development stack. They're not traditional REST APIs, and they're not simple CLI tools - they bridge AI models with external resources. This means testing them requires a fundamentally different approach than you might be used to.