Two cool things about this google search: 1) Pactflow’s article about CDC is above Martin Fowler’s original article 2)

consumer-driven contract testing pact

is the top link in “people also search for”

Correction: Martin Fowler didn’t write that article(!) it’s just on his website. I have been attributing this wrong for years!

yes! that would be Ian Robinson from Thoughtworks at the time that wrote in 2008! i am pretty sure it was Thoughtworks who ran with Pacto, which generally pre dated my Pact experience which started about 2017 i think

Pacto

I’d never heard of this! Here’s a link for anyone curious. Looks like they retired it and recommend Pact instead ❤️

My theory is that it was some clone/copy of when Pact was created. If you recall, Pact was created at REA where a bunch of TW’s worked - including some on the initial implementation! TW were always very supportive/proponents of Pact, so I wonder if this was a nod to it. It would be a little too coincidental that another contract testing tool cropped up just after Pact, with almost the same name from a company that had a hand/early visibility on the other