In this episode we had AJ Wilson who is a Quality Engineer at Cazoo, stem advocate and community champion. We chatted about attending my contract testing workshop as a novice, including API maintenance regularly, exploring API’s, observability, reviewing conference abstracts for Grace Hopper Conference, empowering women in tech through mentoring and much more. You can follow @AjParadith on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode I speak with Marie Drake who is a Quality Engineering Manager at Zoopla, blogger, conference speaker and Cypress.io UK meetup organiser. We talk about pact nirvana and how to achieve it. We also touch on subjects around celebrating small wins, benefits of contract testing, enabling developers to test with modern tools and managing contracts at scale with Pactflow. Follow Marie on Twitter, read her blog or connect on LinkedIn. Then checkout my appearance at the Cypress.io UK Meetup talking about using Pactflow stubs with Cypress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conversation with Bas about the benefits of contract testing. In this episode we talk about who is responsible for testing, removing the reliance on end-to-end tests, where to start with learning contract testing and much more. Find out more about Inspired Testing academy, the 6 part blog series introducing a use case for consumer-driven contract testing. Also checkout more of Bas' content on his blog on test automation or follow him on LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conversation with Yousaf, who has just started as a developer advocate at Pactflow. In this episode we talk about his journey to becoming a developer advocate, open source software, openAPI specs, API blueprints, testing your automation testing framework, component integration testing and much more. If you want to find out more about Pactflow or sign up for free. Also checkout the Tutorials, CI/CD (Consumer Driven Contract Testing) workshop, Bi-Directional Contract Testing Workshop, Pactflow examples See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conversation with Yousaf about Bi-directional contract testing, who has just started as a developer advocate at Pactflow. In this episode we talk about where should API tests live, the rise of micro-frontends, shift left and much more. If you want to find out more about Pactflow or sign up for free. Also checkout the Tutorials, CI/CD (Consumer Driven Contract Testing) workshop, Bi-Directional Contract Testing Workshop, Pactflow examples See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our first guest is Neil Syrett (Senior QA SDET) from ClearBank. Neil brings his experience from ASOS & ClearBank to expand on topics including breaking down monoliths, public API's, defining domain boundaries, modern testing principles, testing at scale, bi-directional contracts, difference between contracts & schemas and much more! Enjoy the podcast. Neil also has some great content on his blog. Also do checkout Pactman Consulting for a free course and how to contact me for a test strategy consultation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Trailer for the "How to get started with API Contract Testing" podcast series See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.