Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott

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It's no surprise that this episode's guest Lewis Prescott has a website called "pactman". Pact is a popular contract testing tool, and Lewis is indeed a man who can tell quite a bit about Pact and contract testing. In this conversation, you'll learn more about contract testing, its benefits, misconceptions, and where to start.
Find Lewis on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-prescott-12409a44/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/WuigPrescott
- Lewis' website: https://www.pactman.co.uk/

Mentions and resources:

• Spotify Testing Honeycomb model: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2018/01/testing-of-microservices/
• Pactflow's Bi-Directional Contract Testing: https://pactflow.io/bi-directional-contract-testing/
• Lewis' How To Start API Contract Testing Podcast: https://www.pactman.co.uk/contract-testing-podcast
• Youtube video that was Lewis' first intro to contract testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0UGY2-YYI

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Chapters

1. Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott (00:00:00)

2. A day in a life of a QA lead (00:02:17)

3. What are contract tests? (00:07:14)

4. Motivation and benefits of contract tests (00:08:58)

5. Bidirectional contract tests vs. consumer driven (00:12:32)

6. Selling the idea of contract testing (00:16:03)

7. Is it possible to have no E2E tests? (00:18:27)

8. Where to start when you want to do contract tests? (00:23:22)

9. Prerequisites for starting contract testing (00:26:14)

10. Lewis' advice for building high-quality products and teams (00:32:04)