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Integrate Deeper with our Developer API 🧿
22 November 2023

Integrate Deeper with our Developer API 🧿

Announcing the launch of PactFlow’s Developer API.

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By Matt Fellows
Farewell Candy: Levelling Up Beyond Our Team!
25 August 2023

Farewell Candy: Levelling Up Beyond Our Team!

Today, we're hitting a unique combo of emotions – a mix of joy for what lies ahead and a tinge of sadness for what's coming to an end.Our wonderful Candy, the young and

1 min read

By Ilia Mogilevsky
Five Reasons Why Your Contract Testing Initiative Could Fail (And How to Avoid Them)
7 July 2023

Five Reasons Why Your Contract Testing Initiative Could Fail (And How to Avoid Them)

Set yourself up for contract testing success. Joe Joyce - Senior Solutions Engineer at SmartBear - explains the five most common reasons a contract testing initiative could fail and how to avoid them.

4 min read

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By Joe Joyce
Unveiling of the SwaggerHub + PactFlow Integration
17 January 2023

Unveiling of the SwaggerHub + PactFlow Integration

API designers and developers can harness the power the contract testing at scale to deploy with confidence, knowing updates to their API specification will not result in a breaking change.

2 min read

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By Alicia Foreman
Pactflow 2022 Year in Review
15 December 2022

Pactflow 2022 Year in Review

It's been quite the year! The Pactflow team have celebrated many major milestones and we know it’s only going to get better from here. From joining the SmartBear family to hiring some great new talent, launching major features for both Pactflow and Pact Open Source - here's what we've been up to!

2 min read

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By Matt Fellows
What is contract testing and why should I try it?
17 November 2022

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

6 min read

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By Matt Fellows
Contract Testing Vs Integration Testing
15 September 2022

Contract Testing Vs Integration Testing

Contract testing is a technique to calm the chaos caused by sprawling, complex microservices & APIs. Here's how to use it alongside integration testing.

11 min read

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By Alicia Foreman
Can I Deploy?
27 July 2022

Can I Deploy?

Pactflow’s unique Can I Deploy user interface allows teams to easily digest contract testing results, giving more information on what failed and why. Fix bugs faster and deploy with confidence. Try it on any Pactflow plan today

2 min read

By Administrator
New Adapter: Use Cypress in Contract Testing
7 April 2022

New Adapter: Use Cypress in Contract Testing

As a front end engineer like me, you may find that end-to-end tests might not give you the confidence you need.  The team and I at Pactflow are no strangers to this and

3 min read

By Shuying Lin
Pactflow joins the SmartBear family
6 April 2022

Pactflow joins the SmartBear family

Pactflow joins the SmartBear family. We are pleased to share that Pactflow has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by SmartBear. We are excited to join the SmartBear family with a common commitment to driving quality software outcomes and fostering the open source community.

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By Matt Fellows
Pactflow features on Thoughtworks' Technology Radar 2021
30 March 2022

Pactflow features on Thoughtworks' Technology Radar 2021

We're honoured to be highlighted in Thoughtworks' Technology Radar 2021 for helping developers address the challenges of continuous testing complex distributed systems.

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By Alicia Foreman
Introducing Bi-Directional Contract Testing

Introducing Bi-Directional Contract Testing

We’re pleased to announce the highly anticipated launch of Bi-Directional Contract Testing, a Pactflow exclusive feature enabling new modes of contract capture and compliance, a broader set of use cases, and a simplified developer experience to supercharge your contract testing journey.

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By Matt Fellows
Evolving the Pactflow brand
10 December 2021

Evolving the Pactflow brand

Introducing our refreshed brand! Like most startups, our team was small in the early days so we embraced lean methodologies to get our product off the ground. Now, as we are growing and maturing, we felt the need for the brand to evolve too.

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By Carl Thompson
The case for contract testing Protobufs, gRPC and Avro
2 September 2021

The case for contract testing Protobufs, gRPC and Avro

High performance technologies such as Protobufs and Avro have gained popularity in microservices and event oriented architectures, but do they deliver on their promises concerning backwards/forwards compatibility in these use cases? In this post, we dive deep into the challenges these tools present.

9 min read

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By Matt Fellows
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