Investigating Contract Testing

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Compares concrete workflows: uses Spring Cloud Contract with Groovy/YAML-based contract files that generate producer-side tests and stubs, shows Pact Broker managing JSON pact artifacts in Docker for consumer-driven verification, and demonstrates Protocol Buffers as a compiled contract that generates language-specific classes so CI fails at compile time. Notes practical tradeoffs: Groovy DSL and language-specific pact generators cause friction, broker solves versioning, and protobuf catches many breaking changes earlier.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:56Contract Testing
3. 9:13Consumer-Driven Contract
4. 10:23Spring Cloud Contract
5. 17:25Advantages and Pros and Cons of the Spring Cloud Contract
6. 33:55Summary

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