API Design · Middle · Question 53 of 75

What are contract tests between a client and an API?

✓Correct answer: Tests that check both sides agree on requests and responses (e.g. consumer-driven contracts with Pact, or validating against OpenAPI)
2Legal contracts for API usage
3Load tests

Explanation

They catch incompatibilities earlier than full end-to-end tests and run faster.

Further reading

OpenAPI Specification ↗

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