Step by Step API Contract Testing with Pact for Beginners
What you'll learn
- Understand API Contract Testing when testing microservices
- Consumer Driven Contract Test using pact-js
- Provider Contract Test using PactNet
- Setup Pact Broker using Docker
- Contract Testing in Continuous Integration with Github Actions
- Publish Pact Contracts with Postman
- Faster feedback from Contract Tests than Integration Tests
Course content
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- 4 questionsContract Testing with Pact
Requirements
- Basic programming skills (JavaScript, C#)
- Basic knowledge of Docker (docker-compose)
Description
Learn how to write a full End to End API Contract Test with Pact and setup the Pact Broker in Docker!
Working in a microservices architecture? Tired of problems in your integration environments, the long process of waiting for API changes to be deployed to integration for testing.
Things you will learn:
Consumer contract testing using Pact-JS
Provider contract testing using PactNet
Pact Broker Setup with Docker
Publish Pact Contracts using Postman and Pact-JS
Can I Deploy using Pact Broker Client
Introduce contract testing to your test suite, for these benefits and much more:
Open communication between microservices
Faster feedback
Less integration issues
Visualise consumers
Versioning made easy
Curated and Directed by Course Instructor from Test Automation University fame (Sponsored by Applitools)
Who this course is for:
- API developers
- Software tester who wants faster feedback
- Software testers
- Solution Architects
- Front-end developers using APIs
Instructor
![Lewis Prescott](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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- 57 Reviews
- 223 Students
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I'm an experienced Software Developer in Test. Working in UI, API, Contract and Unit Testing using frameworks such as Cypress, NUnit, RestSharp, Supertest, Pact and Jest.
Working closely with QA's at Cancer Research, I am teaching coding fundamentals, modern test principles and building out the testing capability working towards Continuous Deployment.
Course Instructor on Test Automation University