At my company there has been a move away from our large e2e testing suite for various reasons:

  • flaky tests
  • long build times
  • significant burden for multiple teams to contribute

The use of pact is seemingly only covering some small portion of each integration point between applications as large, comprehensive pacts that cover the full API and values used are considered too costly or coupled.

I am conflicted that we are losing test coverage of business use cases because there aren’t necessarily any tests that are automatically running a use case end to end.

How do you deal with this in your workplace and what is your position on e2e vs pact testing.

  • @ZeroEcks
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    51 year ago

    I have never actually managed to get it integrated, but I have always pushed for contract testing that’s maintained by both sides of the contract. This has the benefit of being able to create compatibility matrixes between services at the very least