Microservices Contract Testing with Pact

Name: Microservices Contract Testing with Pact
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This Course explains Why/How to write contract tests for Testing Microservices using Pact Testing tool on Live Projects

Created byRahul Shetty Academy - 1.2 Million QA Learners, Venugopal Rao

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

Understand the differences between Monolithic and Microservices Architecture
Realize the Importance and necessity of Contract Testing in the Microservices Architecture
Learn to build effective Contract Tests using Pact Testing tool to test the Inter communication between two Systems
Understand writing Consumer Driven & Provider Tests to generate the Integration check of two services
Deeper Understanding of Pact Contract Testing tool and its related Orchestrator tools like Pact flow to centrally manage Contract files

Course content

8 sections • 24 lectures • 4h 7m total length

Course Goals -Objective (Must watch)6:20
Discover contract testing with Pact to validate microservices communication, place contract tests in the unit testing layer of the test pyramid, and learn to set up pact-based tests and environments.
Differences between Monolithic and Microservices Architecture14:35
Explore the differences between monolithic and microservices architectures. See how monoliths centralize code and database, while microservices enable loose coupling, independent databases, and isolated deployments for each business function.
How MicroServices communicate with each other in the Distributed Systems9:02
Importance of Microservices Integration testing in Agile world20:21
Explore why microservices demand dedicated integration testing in an agile world, contrast with monolithic testing, and introduce Pact as a tool to catch contract breaks before deployment.

Demonstration on Negative Scenario Real world example on Contract testing6:25
Build Consumer side Unit tests on Pact Mock server to generate Contract file16:11
Run tests on the Provider side Unit tests by updating State of actions3:10
Building the Pact Server configuration for Negative Scenarios of no data found13:51
Update the States on Provider side to update the data as per contract test9:34
Learn how to update provider state for Pact contract testing, manage database interactions with Spring Boot JPA, and design pre and post request interactions with mock responses to validate contracts.

What is Pact flow. How to setup Pact flow account and generate tokens5:40
Discover how Pact Flow functions as a broker between consumer and provider, centralizing contract files on a Pact Flow server and access via a unique URL and tokens.
How to publish the Contract from the Consumer repo to Pact flow6:39
Retrieving the Contract file from Pact flow to Provider repo with config changes6:32
Section Quiz
Article reading5:46

Requirements

Basic Java
Spring Boot fundamentals ( Good to have but optional)

Description

" Contract Testing " is one of the most buzzing word in the Software Industry especially in the projects which relies heavily on Microservices Architecture.
Contract testing is the Modern way of testing communication/Contract between two any Systems (Such as Microservice, Angular NodeJS, Java Apps). In Agile world, Contract Testing is heavily used in the bottom of the Test Pyramid to identify the bugs in early development cycle.
***For More details, Please watch Preview lectures of this course to get detail understanding of how and Why Contract Testing****
In this course, We shall be using Pact Contract testing tool (Java Library) to test the inter communication contract between Microservices

What this Course offers?

This course helps you to understand all the concepts revolving around Contract testing first to make you realize the importance of having these tests in the Projects
And then introduces the Contract testing tool called Pact and gets deep dive into writing Consumer & Provider driven Contract tests to test Microservices Inter communication.
I will also show you different helper orchestrator tools available such as Pactflow to centrally manage Contract files across the Projects.

On course completion, You will have thorough understanding of how Microservices communication works internally and how can we test this communication using Pact Contract Testing tool.

Who this course is for:

Automation Testers
QA
Developers
Software Engineers

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Introduction to MicroServices and advantages of them4 lectures • 50min

Importance of Contract Testing in MicroServices Agile world2 lectures • 29min

Setting up Pact Contract Testing tool and build Consumer Driven Tests3 lectures • 44min

Generate Contract file and Setup Provider Runner to run on Contract tests3 lectures • 31min

How Contract Testing catches bugs if Changes made on Provider Microservice2 lectures • 17min

End to end Contract validations on both Consumer and Provider Microservices5 lectures • 49min

Pact Flow - Orchestrator to manager Contract file gobally between Microservices4 lectures • 25min

article1 lecture • 1min

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