Testing is a fundamental part of the software development process. When creating web applications, we make calls to third-party APIs, databases, or other services in our environment. Therefore, our tests must validate those request are sent and responses handled correctly. However, we may not always be able to communicate
In almost all fields, products are thoroughly tested before being released to the market to ensure its quality and that it works as intended.
Medicine, cosmetic products, vehicles, phones, laptops are all tested to ensure that they uphold a certain level of quality that was promised to the consumer.
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
