hi guys - is there a way to separate the publishing of the provider results back to the broker from the actual run of the provider tests? (somehow similar to running consumer tests and publishing them in the broker)

You can publish verification results to the broker if you wanted to https://docs.pact.io/provider#publish-verification-results-to-the-pact-broker

Yousaf, how I have it now is that I have the

pact.verifier.publishResults

property set to

true

in the surefire, so the results get published. What I intend to do is to have 2 separate stages: 1. run tests 2. publish the results

sounds plausible, I've not tried it myself. may be worth spinning up the scenario on a local broker to test 🙂