API Hub for Contract Testing - Introduction to Pact
Goals
Understand the problems with end-to-end integrated testing, including managing environments
Learn the basics of contract testing and how it can fit in to a general testing strategy
Learn the core concepts of Pact
By the end of the course, you should be comfortable writing Pact consumer tests and verifying contracts on the provider side, and have a basic understanding of how you can collaborate using a Pact Broker.
Course Guide
The full introductory workshop can be run within 2 - 2.5 hours, and we recommend delivering it in the following order in a single session:
Step | Description | Material | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
n/a | Preparation step: watch introductory series on contract-testing and Pact | 45 minutes | |
1 | Introduction to contract-testing with Pact presentation (slides 1 - 46) | pdf | pptx | 30 minutes |
2 | Pact in action (optional) | See demos | 15 minutes |
3 | Run the Node JS workshop | 2-3 hours | |
4 | API Hub for Contract Testing summary (slides 47+) | pdf | pptx | 5 minutes |
Note
You may swap out the language for one of our other workshops if a client would prefer it done in a separate language. It's worth stating however that the JS and Golang workshops are currently the best designed for this course.