Pact Foundation

I wanted to get a consensus on how many folks here have just used the standalone pact verifier for their provider side validations. I have heard that a proper provider side implementation using the <https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/jvm/provider/spring|Pact Spring> dependency is the best way to go since it truly enables you to run your tests independent of an environment and better for a TDD approach.

I wanted to know if there were any holes in my assumption and to better understand the pact ecosystem. Thanks :pray: !!!

Most people would use a client SDK to do the verifications

Those that use <https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-reference/tree/master/rust/pact_verifier_cli> tend to use it for 3 reasons

1. They are verifying an unsupported language
2. They want to standardise the toolchain
3. QAs/Testers are primarily the users, and they are testing it against live systems in a black-box way
(3) is definitely not ideal, but I’ve seen it before

Thanks for the quick response Matt! We will definitely use the cli initially but using the SDK is the way to go :raised_hands: