In this article, we'll introduce you to Spring Cloud Contract, which is Spring's response to Consumer-Driven Contracts.
Nowadays, applications are thoroughly tested - whether it be unit tests, integration tests, or end-to-end tests. It's very common in a microservice architecture that a service (consumer) communicates with another service (producer
JUnit is a popular testing framework for Java. Simple use is very straightforward and JUnit 5 brought some differences and conveniences compared to JUnit 4.
The test code is separate from the actual program code, and in most IDEs the testing results/output are also separate from the program's
The Spring Framework is a very robust framework, released in 2002. Its core features can be applied to plain Java applications or extended to complex, modern web applications.
As it's constantly being updated and is following new architectural and programming paradigms, it offers support for many other frameworks that
Good software is tested software. Testing our code can help us catch bugs or unwanted behavior.
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practice that requires us to incrementally write tests for features we want to add. It leverages automated testing suites, like pytest - a testing framework
