Have you heard of Contract Testing? Are you currently working on a project involving multiple data providers? Do you want to make sure that consumers and data providers can catch broken changes earlier on in your pipeline? If the answer to these questions is yes, then this workshop is for you! In this workshop, I’ll explain what contract testing is, how it’s different from other types of testing, its features and benefits. No workshop is complete without a live demonstration so I’ll also be walking you through how to setup both consumer and provider contract testing using Pact JS with Jest.

Outline:

• Problem Statement
• Issues with unit testing and/or traditional integration testing
• What is Contract Testing?
• Features and Benefits of Contract Testing 
• When not to use Contract Testing?
• Walkthrough of example Rest API to test
• Installation and pre-requisites overview
• How to set up Consumer Contract Testing
• Introduction to Pact Broker
• Uploading the contract to the Pact Broker
• How to setup Provider Contract Testing