Michael HönnigMar 1, 2019

RT @[email protected] #swDevTermOfTheDay #ConsumerDrivenContractTesting (#CDCT) is an approach to keep #API|s between deployment units (especially in #Microservice|s environments) synchronized. It also makes parallel development of client and server respectively frontend and backend possible.

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“#swDevTermOfTheDay #ConsumerDrivenContractTesting (#CDCT) is an approach to keep #API|s between deployment units (especially in #Microservice|s environments) synchronized. It also makes parallel development of client and server respectively frontend and backend possible.”

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#WireMock is pretty cool for mocking REST APIs locally and in early #BuildPipeline stages. But yesterday one disadvantage hit us hard: Our multipart request was not understood by the real service (which was deployed for the first time). #CDCT would have prevented that. ...
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Show threadMichael HönnigMar 1, 2019
... luckily we noticed that in a later stage of the build pipeline, before production. And the feature was still behind a #FeatureToggle anyway.
Show threadMichael HönnigMar 1, 2019
... A mock using the same #SpringFramework #REST endpoint method signature as the real service, as we usually implement mocks, would have found the problem right away, as well.