When a Pact Broker instance has accumulated large amounts of data, its performance can start to degrade. A new feature has been released in the Pact Foundation's Pact Broker Docker image to allow old, unused data to be removed automatically from the Pact Broker at a configured schedule. The clean…
The new "work in progress pacts" feature allows consumers to get feedback on whether or not their changed pacts are valid, without the provider team having to take action, and without breaking the provider build.…
Changes to the contract made by the consumer teams can no longer break the provider builds. Hooray!…
While full Pact specification v3 support is still a while off, you can now verify pacts that use multiple provider states and provider state params from the v3 compliant implementations (eg. JVM and Rust) The provider state setup url will be called once for each provider state.…
If you are using a git sha for the consumer version number when you publish your pacts, you can now use Pact Broker webhooks to report the verification statuses of your pacts back to Github.…
The can-i-deploy tool is a CLI that ensures you are safe to deploy a consumer or provider into a given environment. To do this, it queries the Pact Broker to ensure that there is a successful verification result between the existing application versions and the application version you're about to…
Pact is a tool for implementing "consumer driven contracts" - a technique for testing integrations without using traditional integration tests. It was first written at realestate.com.au to help a team of developers escape the integration test hell of a rapidly expanding HTTP microservices network, and has…