Contract Testing
Providers using this tag (13)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
APIs with this tag (16)
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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
PactFlowPactFlow is SmartBear's contract testing platform that ensures API changes do not break consumer applicatio...Dredd API Testing FrameworkDredd is an open-source language-agnostic command-line tool for validating API documentation written in Ope...Pact Broker APIPact Broker is a hypermedia HAL API for storing and retrieving consumer contracts created with the Pact con...42Crunch API Scan42Crunch API Scan performs dynamic API security testing (DAST) that evaluates runtime API behavior against ...Dredd APICommand-line HTTP API testing framework that validates API implementations against API Blueprint or OpenAPI...Microcks APIOpen-source cloud-native tool for API mocking and contract testing, supporting test-first development by ge...Pact Broker APIREST API for Pact Broker contract testing service, enabling consumer-driven contract testing where consumer...Stoplight APIAPI design-first platform enabling teams to write API specifications before implementation, supporting test...
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
SchemathesisSchemathesis is a property-based API testing tool that automatically generates test cases from OpenAPI and ...Optic APIOptic is a developer tool that uses API specifications as the source of truth for testing. It tracks specif...Pact Contract TestingPact is a consumer-driven contract testing tool where consumers write test specifications (pacts) that defi...PortmanPortman is an open source CLI tool that auto-generates Postman collections with contract and variation test...DreddDredd is a language-agnostic command-line tool for validating an API description document against a backend...
Score breakdown
Frequency
38.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
27.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
12.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor
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