Microservices Contract Testing with Pact

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to MicroServices and advantages of them

Lecture 1: Course Goals -Objective (Must watch)

Lecture 2: Differences between Monolithic and Microservices Architecture

Lecture 3: How MicroServices communicate with each other in the Distributed Systems

Lecture 4: Importance of Microservices Integration testing in Agile world

Chapter 2: Importance of Contract Testing in MicroServices Agile world

Lecture 1: Why Contract Tests are important to have? And its advantages

Lecture 2: Setting up Microservices in local systems and walk through the code

Chapter 3: Setting up Pact Contract Testing tool and build Consumer Driven Tests

Lecture 1: How to install and Configure Pact Library for Contract testing

Lecture 2: Defining Pact Server configuration and related Interactions with response

Lecture 3: Understand how to write Unit Tests on Pact Server to generate Contract Json file

Chapter 4: Generate Contract file and Setup Provider Runner to run on Contract tests

Lecture 1: How to configure Pact Library on Provider side Microservice

Lecture 2: Setting up Pact Provider side tests configuration with Context object

Lecture 3: Define State change Actions and run the Tests on the Consumer Contract file

Chapter 5: How Contract Testing catches bugs if Changes made on Provider Microservice

Lecture 1: How Contract test reports failure on change in API response contract

Lecture 2: How to generate contract only on required fields of Consumer with regex

Chapter 6: End to end Contract validations on both Consumer and Provider Microservices

Lecture 1: Demonstration on Negative Scenario Real world example on Contract testing

Lecture 2: Build Consumer side Unit tests on Pact Mock server to generate Contract file

Lecture 3: Run tests on the Provider side Unit tests by updating State of actions

Lecture 4: Building the Pact Server configuration for Negative Scenarios of no data found

Lecture 5: Update the States on Provider side to update the data as per contract test

Chapter 7: Pact Flow – Orchestrator to manager Contract file gobally between Microservices

Lecture 1: What is Pact flow. How to setup Pact flow account and generate tokens

Lecture 2: How to publish the Contract from the Consumer repo to Pact flow

Lecture 3: Retrieving the Contract file from Pact flow to Provider repo with config changes

Lecture 4: Article reading

Chapter 8: article

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture