My provider project contains

service

dir with service code and unit tests in the root dir. Contract test (which generate pact file) is placed in

e2e-tests

directory directly under root. Can I also add provider verification tests in that dir or those need to be stored under

service > src > test

? I tried to create those tests in

e2e-tests

but when running I got an error

Caused by: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start reactive web server; nested exception is org.springframework.boot.web.context.MissingWebServerFactoryBeanException: No qualifying bean of type 'org.springframework.boot.web.reactive.server.ReactiveWebServerFactory' available: Unable to start AnnotationConfigReactiveWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ReactiveWebServerFactory bean

And I'm not sure if it's improper usage or it requires some additional configuration?

That's a Spring Framework error. It is not related to Pact.