What Contract Driven Development

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Contract Driven Development leverages API Specifications (such as OpenAPI) as Executable Contracts to shift-left the contract compatibility issue identification.

At a high level, our goal is to

• Significantly improve time to market for features
• Independently develop and deploy microservices and microfrontends
• Drastically reduce the dependency on integration testing
• Foster better API designs and collaboration between teams by facilitating communication through industry standard API Specifications such as OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, etc.

Here is a quick explainer video.

Contract Driven Development is significantly different from other approaches such as Consumer Driven Contract Testing. Here are detailed comparisons with other tools and approaches.