Contract Testing with Pact

Explore how Pact simplifies contract testing by providing libraries for multiple languages and its integration with CI/CD processes.

We'll cover the following

Pact Broker
CLI tools
Additional Go tools

Just like using the Testify suite package for our more complex test setups, we will use a tool called Pact to handle a lot of the concerns outside of our tests. Pact provides libraries for many languages, which is handy for testing a JavaScript UI with your Go backend. Several tools can be used locally by the developers, as well as in the CI/CD process, to provide the promised confidence that deployments can happen with any issues.

Pact Broker

Pact Broker is an application we can start up in our environment to share contracts, as well as provide feedback for consumers stating that their contracts have been verified by the provider:

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Overview

Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures

Supporting Patterns in Brief

Design and Planning

Event Foundations

Tracking Changes with Event Sourcing

Asynchronous Connections

Event-Carried State Transfer

Message Workflows

Transactional Messaging

Testing

Deploying Applications to the Cloud

Application Deployment on AWS with Terraform

Monitoring and Observability

Appendix

Contract Testing with Pact

Pact Broker