Posts for tag contract-testing

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

graphql

10 November 2019

Should I write contract tests for API clients and SDKs?

When creating and scaling out microservices across teams, one common approach is for API providers to create client libraries or SDKs for their services. This can be a convenient mechanism to increase adoption

4 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

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

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

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

5 min read

By Matt Fellows

Product Support

contract-testing

How is Pact different to Postman?

Should I write contract tests for API clients and SDKs?

Serverless: how contract-testing can reduce coupling

The curious case for the Provider Driven Contract

How to get started with contract testing

Injecting values from provider states

Dealing with relative dates in Contract Tests

What is contract testing and why should I try it?