Community videos and articles

Check out the official Pact blog at docs.pact.io/blog and the Pactflow blog for blogs written by Pact maintainers.

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2022

Articles

• How to avoid common pitfalls with modern microservices testing (Video, slides also available)
• Introduction To Contract Testing With Examples (Lewis Prescott)
• Contract Testing fundamentals(part 1)
• Contract Testing fundamentals(part 2)

2021

Articles:

• Consumer Driven contract t esting with Pact

• The Test Kite (incl. Contract Testing)

• The Basics of Contract Tests

• Introduction to Consumer Driven Pact Testing - Angular, Spring Boot, Docker, Jest, Junit and Mockito (Video)

• How to establish quality gates in a Microservices architecture

• Microservice architecture testing strategies

• Reduce the Cost of Migrating to a Microservice Architecture. A kreuzwerker / Pactflow webinar with Q&A (Video)

• Deploy with Speed and Confidence Using Contract Testing and Pact – TestJS Summit (Matt Fellows) (Video)

Customer Stories

• Ibotta
• M1 Finance
• Boost Insurance
• Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite: How Nubank switched to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
• Consumer-Driven Contract Testing - A path to test in isolation with confidence (Raquel Bautista Garrido / Fanduel) (Video)
• Test Automation Talks - Why? What? How? (Bas Dijkstra) (Video)

2020

Pact Community Event

Customer Stories:

• Booking.com - Consumer
• ASOS - Retail (Video)
• John Lewis - Retail
• Mastercard
• IBM - Cloud Garage Practices
• Contentful - Tech
• Die Mobiliar - Insurance

Articles:

• API Conference NL
• Oracle
• kreuzwerker
• Solid studio

2019

Customer Stories:

• Pact tests: how we split up the monolithic deploy (Mettle UK) (Video)
• Microservices. Test smarter, not harder (Video)
• Atlassian - Spec First API Development
• Portbase - Monolith to microservices
• Gov UK
• DAZN
• Solidstudio
• Avisi
• JAX London Video (Video)
• Codecentric
• Codecentric
• Kreuzwerker / Idealo
• AgilePartner
• Baeldung
• n26 - Bank

Articles:

• Testing your contracts (introductory tutorial: 5 part series)
• Indrek - what is contract testing
• Indrek - contract testing workflows
• Benext (Video)
• Angular + Spring Boot
• Ibotta

2018

Customer Stories:

• Doordash
• Ithaka

Articles:

• Testing in Production, the safe way
• Cucumber
• Hackernoon
• Rising Stack
• Service Evolution with Consumer Driven Contracts and Pact (.Net)
• Beyond consumer driven contract testing (video)

2017

Customer Stories:

• Rightmove

Articles:

• Codefresh / Anton weiss
• Move Fast and Consumer-Driven-Contract-Testing Things - Soundcloud MicroXchng 2017"
• Consumer Driven Contract Testing with Pact and Docker - Harry Winser (Video)
• BBVA
• It's not hard to test smart (Video)

Videos:

• Consumer Driven Contract Testing Node.js with Pact - Peter Czibik - NodeBP 2018 from RisingStack

2016

• Consumer driven contract testing - Pact (.NET)
• Deploy with Confidence! Video from April Melb JVM Meetup (Video)
• Deploy with Confidence! Slides from April Melb JVM Meetup.
• Verifying Microservice Integrations with Contract Testing - Atlassian at their 2016 summit (Video)
• Deploy with Confidence - Making your microservices play nicely together with Pact and Consumer Driven Contracts (Video by our maintainer Ronald Holshausen)

2015

• Consumer-driven contracts with Pact and PHP
• Pacts to the rescue! API Days (Video)
• Martin Fowler's Microservices resource guide

2014

• Enter the Pact Matrix. Or, how to decouple the release cycles of your microservices.
• The Odyssey from Monoliths to Microservices (Video)
• Pacts to the rescue! (Video) (Video)
• Microservices testing with Pact-Net (Video) (Video)
• Microservices testing slidedeck
• Thoughtworks Tech Radar
• Ruby Rogues
• SE Radio
• A microservices implementation retrospective
• Karma Refactors to Microservices
• Simplifying microservices testing with pacts