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Pact testing vs end-to-end testing (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] terebat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, in my experience E2E tests have been super successful at catching bugs not surfaced through others.

[–] terebat 1 points 1 year ago

Other types of tests**.

For instance integration with other services, performance regressions, etc.