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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
Content preview from Contract Testing in Action

3 A technical overview of contract testing

This chapter covers

  • Defining consumers, providers, contracts, and contract brokers
  • Contract testing life cycle
  • Contract testing tools
  • Contract testing approaches
  • Communication types supported by contract testing

Before we walk through the implementation steps of contract tests (in later chapters), we’ll first introduce the terminology and tooling. This chapter discusses what consumers and providers are in relation to software development. In addition, before writing contract test code, you must start conversations with key stakeholders regarding where to store the contracts.

In this chapter, we explain the core contract testing concepts. Then, we talk about deciding which contract testing approach ...

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