Don’t Make This Contract Testing Mistake

How can contract testing boost your efficiency? Stay tuned to find out!

Contract testing is a hidden gem. It combines the strengths of unit tests and integration tests, allows for safe deployment, and promotes better team communication – but not many testers know about this game-changing approach.

Marie Drake, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, and Lewis Prescott, Test Specialist at IBM, put their great minds and collective experience together to write Contract Testing In Action; a book where readers get to know the ins and outs of contract testing.
In this episode, Lewis & Marie explain contract testing and how it could improve testing efficiency by detecting communication problems early in the development cycle.

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00:30 Contract test speed challenge
05:00 Meet Marie Drake and Lewis Prescott
07:20 Contract testing vs. API testing
09:09 Biggest mistake in contract testing
11:03 Need for contract testing resources
13:25 Contract testing setup
15:48 Consumers and providers explained
16:38 Consumer-driven testing
18:04 Contract defined
21:01 Testing without deploying
22:10 Contract test example
26:26 Contract testing tools
27:24 Deploying changes safely
29:20 Overriding contract versions
32:04 Error troubleshooting
35:32 Contract testing vs. API testing
39:27 Enhancing communication
43:08 Consumer-driven testing
45:19 Fast feedback for integration
47:24 Pipeline walkthrough
52:20 Is contract testing right for you?
53:54 Start small
54:26 Connect with Marie