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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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5 Implementing consumer-driven contract testing for mobile clients

This chapter covers

  • Pact consumer setup for Android apps
  • Android consumer test implementation
  • Android consumer contract generation

Chapter 4 covered consumer-driven contract testing (CDCT) for web clients using Pact (specification version V3). However, if you’re a mobile developer or tester, you’ll want to understand how to implement CDCT in your native language. In this chapter, we’ll use Kotlin and Gradle to walk through the implementation steps of CDCT in an Android-native application using Pact (specification version V4), from setting up the interaction and applying best practices to generating the consumer contract. Skip to chapter 6 if mobile isn’t something you need ...

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