When running provider tests is there any way to enable more user friendly output (like showing description of 'uponReceiving' in contract). For now all I can see is something like this.... ContractVerificationTest.pactVerificationTestTemplate(PactVerificationContext)[1] PASSED

Where are you seeing this? In the test report, console output or in your IDE?

in console output. Is there a test report?

Yes, there would be a JUnit test report generated