Contract Testing

Kind: activity

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:contract-testing

Canonical: Lexicon

The activity of testing that an implementation honors the contract it declares.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Consumer-Verified Compatibility and before Cross-System Communication.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Refactors

• Schema Drift
• Implicit Contract
• Unversioned Breaking Change
• Test Pyramid Inversion
• Mock Mirage
• Contract-First Design
• Postconditions
• Standards Compliance
• Interchangeability

Enabled by

• Design by Contract

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Core Modular Design