• X Things I’ve Learned about Contract Testing with Pact

  A couple of weeks ago, while at TestBash Manchester, I attended the “Contract Testing in Practice with Pact” workshop led by Pierre Vincent. I had some knowledge of the topic but the workshop helped me get some concepts straight, that either I was not familiar with or I had all wrong. Here are some of the things I’ve learned. Hopefully I got them right. Purpose The aim of contract tests should be to check if there are any changes in the structure of an API (renamed fields, change of type of data, etc.) and not its business logic. As an API consumer You provide the contract, stating your expectations of what a call to an API should return. Contract tests serve as unit tests of the structure of your request. Contract tests should respect the tolerant reader pattern. As the post says, you should “only take the elements you need, ignore anything you don’t.” Running the contract tests you created doesn’t inform you of any changes from the provider’s side. If you are consuming external APIs contract testing won’t really work for you. Unless you have a way of ensuring that the external providers will execute the contracts you supply them with. As an API provider Running contract tests lets you know if you still respect the way your consumers use your API. In case a contract test fails, you should either fix it or start discussions with the consumers about mutually changing the contract. As a provider of an external service[…]

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• Meme of the Day: Bug Reports

  The post Meme of the Day: Bug Reports appeared first on The Life Of One Man.

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• Five Blogs – 15 October 2019

  The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out. How to Apply Shift-Left Testing in Continuous Testing? Written by: Katalon Studio Team Lessons Learned about Cloud Written by: Srinivas Kadiyala Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware Written by: Tasha Eurich Things You Should Know About IoT Testing Written by: TestingWhiz How to Move from Stupid to Smart when You’re Stressed Written by: Dan Rockwell Quote of the day: “There are certain things, no matter what, you have to keep inside.” -Haruki Murakami You can follow this page on Twitter

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