Specmatic Updates

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By Naresh Jain

Playwright API Mocking and Specmatic: When and Why to Use Each 

Playwright API mocking is a test-level capability designed to stub network calls within browser-based UI tests.  Specmatic is a contract-driven API contract testing, simulation and validation platform designed to ensure API correctness, realism,
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Redis stubing - specmatic contact development with contract testing.

Redis Stubbing with Specmatic Contract Testing

Instead of using an actual instance of Redis, we'll stub it out and have the contract test set expectations so that the Redis stub knows
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Dave Farley pointing to the Specmatic tool for easy microservice testing, featured on Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery channel.

“Easy Microservice Testing” – Specmatic featured on Continuous Delivery channel

Dave Farley is a respected author and widely recognised proponent of Continuous Delivery. In this video on his Continuous Delivery YouTube channel he discusses why
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By Hari Krishnan

Types of Contracts Testing – Consumer Driven, Provider Driven and Contract Driven

The terms Contract Testing and "Consumer Driven Contract Testing" are often used interchangeably thereby making it seem like they are one and the same. However
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Comparison of Specmatic and Spring Cloud Contract.

By Hari Krishnan

Comparison: Specmatic vs Spring Cloud Contract

With Spring Cloud Contract we can start by authoring the API contract in one of the supported DSLs, based on which the provider / producer
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Specmatic vs WireMock

By Hari Krishnan

Comparison: Specmatic vs WireMock

API mocking is only effective if the mocks are truly representative of the provider / services they are emulating. Deviations between mocks and providers can
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Specmatic vs Pact & Pactflow comparison

By Hari Krishnan

Comparison: Specmatic vs Pact.io and Pactflow.io

Specmatic and Contract Driven Development differ significantly from Pact. We built Specmatic out of our own necessity where Pact did not fit the bill for
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