Pactflow Blog

user management

22 September 2020

System Accounts

Create and manage system accounts for CI/CD tooling and integration with the Pactflow API

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

open api specification

4 September 2020

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 3)

How to implement a schema-based contract testing strategy with Pactflow using JSON Schemas, and a look into using Open API (Swagger) with Pact and Pactflow

4 min read

By Matt Fellows

json-schema

4 September 2020

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 2)

A detailed look at the three most common approaches to schema-testing: code generation, code-based schema-testing and integrated tests with recording proxies.

6 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

4 September 2020

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 1)

A deep dive into schemas and specifications, how can they be used for schema-based contract testing and their respective benefits and tradeoffs

8 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

11 August 2020

A disastrous tale of UI testing with Pact

I want to do a deep dive into the experience of one particular company that ended up removing their Pact tests because of the pain they were causing - I hope it will help others to avoid the same pain.

5 min read

By Beth Skurrie

pact

29 July 2020

Cypress + Pact: Front End Testing with Confidence

Learn how to make Pact + Cypress work together to create a repeatable, reliable UI test suite that won't result in production issues.

6 min read

By Matt Fellows

postman

17 July 2020

How is Pact different to Postman?

How does pact differ to Postman? Postman is a functional API testing tool whereas Pact is a contract testing tool. Pact provides guarantees that your systems are compatible with one another using fast, isolated and reliable tests. Learn more about these differences in this article.

4 min read

By Matt Fellows

feature

9 July 2020

Hosted API Stubs

Instant hosted API stubs for every contract in Pactflow

3 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

7 July 2020

Why Pact implementations fail and what you can do to avoid it

While Pact has successfully helped many organisations, there are also organisations that have had problems with their Pact implementations. Let's go through some of the reasons why Pact implementations fail to deliver on their promised benefits, and how you can avoid these pitfalls.

4 min read

By Beth Skurrie

users

25 June 2020

User Management

Support for managing your users from within the Pactflow management console.

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

terraform

11 March 2020

Terraform Provider

Automate your Pact Broker setup with Terraform

2 min read

By Matt Fellows

feature

10 January 2020

Audit API

Introducing our Audit API. Find out who has done what and when.

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

graphql

10 November 2019

Should I write contract tests for API clients and SDKs?

If you use pre-built API SDKs to interface with your microservices, these are your options to prevent breaking changes via contract testing.

5 min read

By Matt Fellows

serverless

22 October 2019

Serverless: how contract-testing can reduce coupling

When creating serverless architectures, or any large-scale cloud architecture for that matter, it is inevitable that common components and shared infrastructure begin to emerge.For example, creating a shared logging utility and log

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

18 October 2019

Deploying your microservices with confidence using can-i-deploy

Ensuring that all our applications still work after each deployment can seem like a daunting task that only an extensive set of end-to-end tests can achieve. However, this can stop us achieving the goal that we hoped to achieve by using microservices in the first place - shipping code fast.

3 min read

By Beth Skurrie

11 October 2019

Everything you didn't even know you wanted to ask about Pactflow

What is this Pactflow thing?Before we go into that, let's start with "What is Pact?". For those of you who aren't familiar with Pact at all, here is a bit of background.

2 min read

By Beth Skurrie

saml

10 September 2019

Enterprise login via SAML and Google

Introducing two new authentication options for Pactflow: SAML federation and Google Login.

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

10 September 2019

Verification Results

Introducing verification results, our drill-down view into Pact verification failures at the interaction level.

3 min read

By Matt Fellows

contract-testing

20 August 2019

The curious case for the Provider Driven Contract

Pact evolved from two main concepts: unit testing micro-service integrations and Consumer Driven Contracts (CDC). Consumer Driven has always been a big driver for us, as we felt it has a lot of

4 min read

By Ronald Holshausen

contract-testing

20 August 2019

How to get started with contract testing

How to get started contract testing: a brief guide to getting buy-in, measuring the benefits and rolling out a cultural change.

8 min read

By Matt Fellows

feature

12 August 2019

Secrets

Use secrets to securely manage variables containing sensitive information, such as credentials for your CI systems and Webhook details.

2 min read

By Matt Fellows

provider-states

5 August 2019

Injecting values from provider states

One of the challengers we face when verifying our Pacts against a provider is the situation where we have no control over some of the data the provider returns. Typical examples of this

5 min read

By Ronald Holshausen

Exporting hierarchical architecture diagrams from Pactflow

graph

1 August 2019

Exporting hierarchical architecture diagrams from Pactflow

Learn how to create advanced architectural visualisations with the Pact Broker and Graphviz

2 min read

By Matt Fellows

contract-testing

27 July 2019

Dealing with relative dates in Contract Tests

Like a lot of things in life, Consumer Driven Contract Testing is awesome until it isn't. And when testing with frameworks like Pact, things become tricky when you have to deal with dynamic

2 min read

By Ronald Holshausen

contract-testing

19 July 2019

What is contract testing and why should I try it?

Learn how contract testing fits in your test automation strategy, and how you can reduce reliance on integrated and end-to-end testing to increase speed to market

7 min read

By Matt Fellows

Product Support

Fast, easy and reliable testing for your APIs and microservices at scale

System Accounts

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 3)

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 2)

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 1)

A disastrous tale of UI testing with Pact

Cypress + Pact: Front End Testing with Confidence

How is Pact different to Postman?

Hosted API Stubs

Why Pact implementations fail and what you can do to avoid it

User Management

Terraform Provider

Audit API

Should I write contract tests for API clients and SDKs?

Serverless: how contract-testing can reduce coupling

Deploying your microservices with confidence using can-i-deploy

Everything you didn't even know you wanted to ask about Pactflow

Enterprise login via SAML and Google

Verification Results

The curious case for the Provider Driven Contract

How to get started with contract testing

Secrets

Injecting values from provider states

Exporting hierarchical architecture diagrams from Pactflow

Dealing with relative dates in Contract Tests

What is contract testing and why should I try it?