Consumer-Driven Contract Tests

Kind: technique

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:consumer-driven-contract-tests

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for having each consumer publish the responses it relies on and testing the provider against all of them before it releases.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Version Bump and before Define Contract.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Refactors

• Cyclic Deployment Dependency
• Service Contract
• Consumer-Driven Contracts
• Event-Driven Architecture

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture