title: Test version of web API url
body: <p>For our Web api project we use the following url versioning system:</p>
  
  <p><strong>https://{fqdn}/{apiVersion}/{apiResourceName}/{resourcePath}?{parameters}</strong></p>
  
  <p>for instance we can have something like the following:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://myapi.mysite.com/v1/customer/2" rel="noreferrer">https://myapi.mysite.com/v1/customer/2</a></p>
  
  <p>Now considering above, let say you want to release two versions (live,test) to the customer. One live version (working with live data) and the other one is the test (working with test data for customer development test).</p>
  
  <p>For live one I could easily use the one I mentioned : <a href="https://myapi.mysite.com/v1/customer/2" rel="noreferrer">https://myapi.mysite.com/v1/customer/2</a> . </p>
  
  <p>How do you name the test version of the above api? what is the test version of a api url version v1? Can specify the test api url?</p>
  
  <p>Also what are best practices for fully qualified domain name of the API {fqdn} when using url versioning?</p>