Posts for tag pact

30 May 2023

Contract Testing for gRPC and Protobuf

gRPC and Protobuf have increased in popularity, but are they safer than REST? In this article, we discuss the how and why of gRPC contract testing.

9 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

27 February 2023

Pact Specification 4.0 + Plugin Support

The Pact V4 specification introduced several major innovations, including support for extending Pact with Plugins, new interaction types and a number of matches.

1 min read

By Matt Fellows

We ❤️ OSS (or why build an open source company?)

oss

15 April 2021

We ❤️ OSS (or why build an open source company?)

We ❤️ open source. Pactflow was created to enable sustainable development of Pact and its ecosystem. Learn more about how we think about and balance our open source and commercial tensions.

6 min read

By Matt Fellows

future

18 March 2021

Pact is dead, long live Pact

Learn how we propose to take Pact and contract testing to the next level, with two new major shifts in direction: plugins and bi-directional contracts.

11 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

16 March 2021

Extending Pact with Plugins

How we plan to extend pact to support more use cases, improve our time-to-market for new technologies, and grow our contributor base.

9 min read

By Matt Fellows

contract testing

10 November 2020

Dealing with Hypermedia formats with Pact tests

Hypermedia based APIs are becoming much more prevalent as the format used for web application APIs. We use HAL for our APIs here at Pactflow, and the Pact Broker has been using HAL

7 min read

By Ronald Holshausen

open api specification

4 September 2020

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 3)

How to implement a schema-based contract testing strategy with Pactflow using JSON Schemas, and a look into using Open API (Swagger) with Pact and Pactflow

4 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

4 September 2020

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 1)

A deep dive into schemas and specifications, how can they be used for schema-based contract testing and their respective benefits and tradeoffs

8 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

11 August 2020

A disastrous tale of UI testing with Pact

I want to do a deep dive into the experience of one particular company that ended up removing their Pact tests because of the pain they were causing - I hope it will help others to avoid the same pain.

5 min read

By Beth Skurrie

pact

29 July 2020

Cypress + Pact: Front End Testing with Confidence

Learn how to make Pact + Cypress work together to create a repeatable, reliable UI test suite that won't result in production issues.

6 min read

By Matt Fellows

postman

17 July 2020

How is Pact different to Postman?

How does pact differ to Postman? Postman is a functional API testing tool whereas Pact is a contract testing tool. Pact provides guarantees that your systems are compatible with one another using fast, isolated and reliable tests. Learn more about these differences in this article.

5 min read

By Matt Fellows

pact

7 July 2020

Why Pact implementations fail and what you can do to avoid it

While Pact has successfully helped many organisations, there are also organisations that have had problems with their Pact implementations. Let's go through some of the reasons why Pact implementations fail to deliver on their promised benefits, and how you can avoid these pitfalls.

4 min read

By Beth Skurrie

pact

18 October 2019

Deploying your microservices with confidence using can-i-deploy

Ensuring that all our applications still work after each deployment can seem like a daunting task that only an extensive set of end-to-end tests can achieve. However, this can stop us achieving the goal that we hoped to achieve by using microservices in the first place - shipping code fast.

3 min read

By Beth Skurrie

pact

10 September 2019

Verification Results

Introducing verification results, our drill-down view into Pact verification failures at the interaction level.

3 min read

By Matt Fellows

Product Support

pact

Contract Testing for gRPC and Protobuf

Pact Specification 4.0 + Plugin Support

We ❤️ OSS (or why build an open source company?)

Pact is dead, long live Pact

Extending Pact with Plugins

Dealing with Hypermedia formats with Pact tests

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 3)

Schema-based contract testing with JSON schemas and Open API (Part 1)

A disastrous tale of UI testing with Pact

Cypress + Pact: Front End Testing with Confidence

How is Pact different to Postman?

Why Pact implementations fail and what you can do to avoid it

Deploying your microservices with confidence using can-i-deploy

Verification Results