What Contract Tests Are
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The talk compares car manufacturing processes to microservice development to motivate contract testing as an alternative to slow, brittle integration tests. It introduces the Pact framework and demonstrates using Pact to write contract tests that verify compatibility between independently developed services and produce more reliable applications.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:59Contract tests in automotive
- 11:23IT contract basics
- 15:20Pact and its features
- 18:01Pact Broker and Pact Flow
- 21:19Demo: Contract tests
- 28:26Demo: Provider verification
- 34:00CI/CD integration
- 37:15Pros and cons of contracts
- 40:49Summary and Q&A
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