Tooling Up: Contract testing with Pact

Overgrown integrated tests are ruining people’s lives! They don’t fit the testing pyramid, waste development & testing time, slow down & block releases, increase maintenance effort, and are usually flaky. Even if you know it’s bad, you might not know a better way.

Contract testing intends to decouple codebases. Pact facilitates a workflow allowing testing & verification to happen on each side independently, ensuring that things can be deployed together. Join András Bubics—Lead Consultant at DiUS and Pact contract testing advocate - to understand how you can speed up dev & deploy and abolish end-to-end tests.

References and Links

[s5] Integration tests are a scam - JB Rainsberger
https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/integrated-tests-are-a-scam
[s5] Proving E2E tests are a Scam - Elliott Murray
https://elliottmurray.medium.com/proving-e2e-tests-are-a-scam-21d39e88913
[s16] I used to make games (ex IronMonkey Studios)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firemonkeys_Studios
[s16] GDG Melbourne
https://www.gdgmelbourne.com/
[s16] RHoK Australia
https://www.rhokaustralia.org/
[s35] Testing robots - Jake Wharton
https://jakewharton.com/testing-robots/

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