The History of Contract Testing with Pact.io

Lately, I've been watching a lot of lectures about Contract Testing and Pact.io, trying to prepare for an upcoming job interview. When diving into a new toolset I can never simply jump into the code. I need to know: Why was this toolset created? What problem did it solve? How was this tool created? How did this toolset evolve?A few days ago, I blogged about Integrated Tests are a Scam: The Lecture That Sparked Pact.io talking about J. B. Rainsberger's 2013 lecture. Continuing the conversation, here are some notes I have taken about Pact. The History of Pact.io According to Pact Docs / History:"Pact was originally written by a development team (including Ron Holshausen from DiUS) at realestate.com.au in 2013. They were trying to solve the problem of how to do integration testing for their new Ruby microservices architecture, and they threw together a codebase that was to become the first Pact implementation. As the team was writing Ruby microservices, the serialization of the "matching…