preface
The first time I came across contract testing was at a healthcare startup by the CTO Eike Dawid and then later at a large, more established online retailer with the backing from Neil Syrett, did I explore it in more detail. But it wasn’t until I read one of Marie’s blog posts on how to implement contract testing in a really simple, easy to follow way that I fully understood contract testing. Therefore, when Marie approached me to collaborate on a book about contract testing, I jumped at the chance. I knew that Marie would not only bring a great writing style that readers love but also bring her extensive experience in her testing career to deliver a book with great real-life examples.
We’ve been working with contract testing for five years. We constantly hear the same questions and same challenges from people we meet at testing conferences or in the testing community. The advice we often give people is that you can’t truly see the benefits until you start implementing contract testing, which is why this book had to happen.
As contract testing champions, we’ve always had so much support and developed great friendships with the team at Pact and PactFlow. Now that we’ve managed to write and have this book published, which is the first book dedicated to contract testing, we truly hope you can learn from our learnings and experience with contract testing with Pact and PactFlow.