Introduction to API Contract Testing in Microservices with Pact

Introduction to API Contract Testing in Microservices with Pact

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Learn the basics of how to implement API Consumer Driven Contract Testing with Pact (JavaScript, .Net Core)

Updated on Sep, 2026

Programming, Software Engineering, Microservices

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Want to take your API tests to the next level? Want to deploy apps with more confidence and move to continuous deployment? Then you are in the right place; contract testing is for you. Working in a microservices architecture? Tired of problems in your integration environments, the long process of waiting for API changes to be deployed to integration for testing.

Ask yourself these questions:

1. Are your API integration tests slow and provide feedback too late, causing delays to your release?

2. Do your integration tests fail due to environment and data issues?

3. Does changes to other teams API services cause your tests to fail? Learn how to write a full end-to-end API Contract Test with Pact and setup the Pact Broker in Docker!

Things you will learn:

Consumer contract testing using Pact-JS

Provider contract testing using PactNet

Pact Broker Setup with Docker

Publish Pact Contracts using Postman and Pact-JS

Can I Deploy using the Pact Broker Client

Introduce contract testing to your test suite for these benefits and much more:

Open communication between microservices

Less integration issues

Versioning made easy

Curated and Directed by Course Instructor from Test Automation University.

Basic programming skills (JavaScript, C#)

Basic knowledge of Docker (docker-compose)

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