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The Benefits of API Contract Testing

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Duration

60 minutes

Presenters

Joe Joyce

Solutions Architect

SmartBear

Ronan Trainor

Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering

SmartBear

API Contract Testing is fast becoming the go-to approach for testing integrations between microservices, and can often be a better approach than traditional end-to-end testing. By using a contract (definition) that describes a services functionality, you can verify the behavior of related services. In this webinar we will review the benefits of API Contract Testing and why/how to adopt it.

Here is a sneak peek at the agenda:

What is contract testing?
When should we use it?
What are the advantages of consumer-driven contract testing?
How can we implement it?
How does virtualization fit into the picture?

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