https://abygeorgea.com/categories/pact/Recent content in Pact on Aby GeorgeHugoen-usTue, 25 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/25/wiring-pact-into-cicd/Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/25/wiring-pact-into-cicd/Pulling consumer tests, contract publishing, provider verification, and can-i-deploy into one end to end CI/CD pipeline for both services.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/18/versioning-and-breaking-changes-in-pact/Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/18/versioning-and-breaking-changes-in-pact/How Pact tracks contract versions over time, tagging by branch and environment, and what a genuinely breaking change looks like in the broker.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/11/gating-releases-with-pact-can-i-deploy/Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/11/gating-releases-with-pact-can-i-deploy/Using Pact's can-i-deploy CLI check as an automated release gate, so a service cannot deploy against a contract nobody has verified.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/04/publishing-contracts-to-a-pact-broker/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/02/04/publishing-contracts-to-a-pact-broker/Standing up a Pact Broker, publishing consumer contracts to it automatically, and pulling them into provider verification tests.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/28/verifying-pact-contracts-on-the-provider-side/Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/28/verifying-pact-contracts-on-the-provider-side/Replaying a Pact contract against the real provider service, setting up provider states, and reading a verification failure.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/21/writing-your-first-pact-consumer-test/Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/21/writing-your-first-pact-consumer-test/Turning a Pact contract definition into a real test method, calling actual client code against the mock server, and generating a contract file.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/14/setting-up-pact-with-spring-boot/Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/14/setting-up-pact-with-spring-boot/Adding Pact JVM to a Spring Boot project, the project layout it expects, and the first empty consumer test skeleton.https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/07/consumer-driven-contract-testing-explained/Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:25:31 +1000https://abygeorgea.com/blog/2025/01/07/consumer-driven-contract-testing-explained/What consumer-driven contract testing actually solves, and why it fits microservices better than end-to-end tests or shared integration environments.