PACT been recently acquired by Smartbear. Smart be...
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PACT been recently acquired by Smartbear. Smart bear has a tool called Ready API, whats the difference being both API testing tools. We are opting for PACT, so trying to understand the benefits of PACT over Ready API.
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No it hasn’t. Pact is open source. Pact is not Pactflow (who have been bought by smartbear)
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Pact is a contract testing tool, ReadyAPI is a functional/security/performance tool
you can use both at the same time, if you want.
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Hey, Some material around the acquisition and what it means for Pact. https://docs.pact.io/blog/2022/04/06/pactflow-joins-smartbear and PactFlow’s sentiment towards open source and the positioning of Pact https://pactflow.io/blog/why-build-an-open-source-company/ TL;DR - We want it to be accessible to as many people as possible, but we also understand that larger enterprise customers who make the world work, also want the additional features and support that commercial tools such as PactFlow and ReadyAPI provide. SmartBear for example also SoapUI, the open source alternative to ReadyAPI. There is a plethora of documentation supporting these tools, on both of their own sites, and in others own words. Happy to answer any specific questions 👍
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