Pact is a code-first tool for testing HTTP and message integrations using contract tests. Contract tests assert that inter-application messages conform to a shared understanding that is documented in a …

Contract testing is about making sure your consumer team and provider team have a shared understanding of what the requests and responses will be in each possible scenario.

Once all of the interactions have been tested on the consumer side, the Pact framework generates a pact file, which describes each interaction: This pact file can be used to verify that the provider meets …

Pact is a consumer-driven contract testing tool, which is a fancy way of saying that the API Consumer writes a test to set out its assumptions and needs of its API Provider (s).

Now that you have created and run your consumer tests, producing a contract (the pact file) as an artefact, we need to share it with the team responsible for managing the Order API, so that they can …

You can continuously evolve your codebases knowing that Pact will guarantee contracts are met. You can find out before you deploy whether or not your applications will work together - there is no need …

Pact on its own allows you to create and verify contracts. Pact + Pact Broker allows you to integrate contract testing into your CI/CD pipeline to allow you to release code faster.

The main difference between them is that Pact generates language-neutral acceptance contracts, in the form of JSON pact files. These pact files can be created, or tested, by anything that implements the …

Contract testing allows you to take an integration test that gives you slow feedback and replace it with two sets of "unit" tests that give you fast feedback - one set for the consumer, using a mock provider, …

Pact is a consumer-driven contract testing tool, which is a fancy way of saying that the API Consumer writes a test to set out its assumptions and needs of its API Provider (s).