Introduction to the course
Setting the stage
Contract testing - Concepts
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What is a contract? (1:54)
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What is contract testing? (2:08)
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How is contract testing different from other approaches to integration testing? (3:10)
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How is contract testing different from schema validation? (2:56)
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Where does contract testing fit into your testing strategy? (2:44)
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Different approaches to contract testing (5:04)
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Contract testing - Concepts - Quiz
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Contract testing - Concepts - Additional resources
The Pact ecosystem
Generating consumer contracts
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What goes into a consumer contract? (6:10)
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Preparing your machine for the hands-on exercises (Java)
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Generating a consumer contract (Java) (7:56)
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Defining provider states (4:04)
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Dealing with optional fields (3:00)
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Generating consumer contracts - Quiz
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Generating consumer contracts - Hands-on exercises (Java)
Publishing consumer contracts
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Introducing the Pact Broker (3:44)
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Publishing our contracts using the Pact CLI tools (2:54)
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Publishing our contracts using the Pact Maven plugin (2:32)
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Consumer contract versioning (3:24)
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Publishing consumer contracts - Quiz
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Publishing consumer contracts - hands-on exercises (all programming languages)
Verifying consumer contracts
Continuous Integration
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What happens when our software evolves?
Consumer-driven contract testing implementation challenges
Bidirectional contract testing
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The bidirectional contract testing flow (2:37)
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Generating and publishing consumer contracts (Java) (5:14)
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Publishing provider contracts and verification by PactFlow (4:23)
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Bidirectional or consumer-driven contract testing? (4:21)
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Bidirectional contract testing - Quiz
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Bidirectional contract testing - hands-on exercises (Java)
Where to from here?
Additional material and resources
