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Welcome to the pact wiki!

Wordy things

• Frequently asked questions
• Rarely asked questions
• Terminology
• News, blogs and articles

Techy things

• Matching gotchas - things you should know about how Pact works that might cause problems if you don't understand them.
• Provider states
• Verifying pacts
• Regular expressions and type matching with Pact
• Configuration
• Understanding Request Matching
• Autogenerated documentation
• Troubleshooting

Processey things

• Development workflow
• Best practices
• Sharing pacts between consumer and provider
• Using pact where the consumer team is different from the provider team
• [Testing with pact diagram](Testing with pact.png)

Implementations in other languages

• JVM
• .Net
• Javascript (consumer)
• Javascript (provider)

Example codebases

• Zoo App & Animal Service - a simple example in the Pact repo itself.
• pact_broker-client - confusingly enough, the Pact Broker Client has a Pact with the Pact Broker... meta...
• microservices-pact - Uses Pact JVM and Spring Boot.

Contributing

Want to help out with the documentation? Have ideas you want to contribute? Github wikis don't support pull requests, but you can raise an issue with a diff (wikis can be cloned like normal repos), or you can follow this process http://fusiongrokker.com/post/how-you-can-contribute-to-taffy-documentation