Pacto can be used to test more than just Ruby projects. In fact, we've been experimenting with Pacto as a way to validate OpenStack SDKs written in many languages. The setup looks like this:
The test suite is used to ensure that similar code samples from each SDK trigger similar RESTful interactions with the provider's API. The process is:
- The test suite (written in RSpec) launches a Pacto Server to intercept API interactions.
- The test suite then runs the sample code for each SDK.
- The SDKs are configured to call the APIs via a Pacto endpoint. Pacto forwards the requests to the real service (or returns a stubbed response, if stubbing is enabled) and then validates the request/response interaction matched a contract.
- Once the sample code has finished running, the RSpec tests can check with Pacto to confirm only expected services were called, and that there were no validation errors.
- We then generate a feature matrix report and other documentation for the SDKs.
The test suite is designed so that necessary pieces within a test are multi-threaded and avoid deadlocks, and you can run multiple tests in parallel to minimize the time required to test.
We haven't packaged this approach up as a reusable project yet, but our test suite is open-source so check it out and then contact Max if you're interested in helping extract reusable patterns.