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Contract Testing in Action
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Contract Testing in Action

by Lewis Prescott, Marie Cruz
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 56m
English
Manning Publications
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11 Implementing provider-driven contract testing

This chapter covers

  • Introduction to provider-driven contract testing
  • Implementing consumer test adapters
  • Implementing provider tests with API testing tools

As mentioned in chapter 1, section 1.4, consumer-driven contract testing (CDCT) is when the consumer creates the contract and shares it with the data providers, essentially driving the requirements. The consumer-driven approach aims to avoid over-engineering from the provider side by only providing the data the consumer needs. Throughout chapter 2, we provide the benefits of adopting CDCT, and, in chapter 6, we talk about provider tests that verify consumer contracts. However, we also mentioned that the CDCT approach only works with ...

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