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Contract testing

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, contract testing means: Testing whether communicating components follow agreed expectations about requests, responses or messages.

In Turkish: sözleşme testi

How it is used

Used between services and their consumers. It checks interaction expectations without replacing full workflow tests.

Example sentences

  1. The contract testing suite caught the removed response field before the mobile client was released.

    The client depended on a field that the provider no longer supplied.

  2. Our contract testing verifies that the consumer can handle the provider's error message.

    The agreement covers failure responses as well as successful data.

Common collocations

  • consumer-driven contract testing
  • contract testing suite
  • integration testA test that checks how several parts of a system work together, for example your code with a real database or another service.
  • APIShort for application programming interface: a set of rules that lets one program ask another program for data or actions in a fixed, documented way.

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