QE Contract Testing - API Contract Testing & Validation
Consumer-driven contract testing for APIs including REST, GraphQL, and event-driven systems with schema validation
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Updated: 2026-03-10Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Generate API contracts
- Verify provider contracts
- Check breaking changes
- Test GraphQL schema
- Validate event schema
- Publish contracts
- Fetch contracts
- Parse OpenAPI specification
- Detect removed endpoints
- Check parameter changes
- Verify response schema
- Identify deprecations
- Execute contract tests
- Validate request body
- Validate response body
Inputs
- API specification
- Contract file
- Schema file
- Provider URL
- Query file
- Event schema
- Broker URL
- Authentication token
Outputs
- Contract file
- Contract report
- Compatibility report
- Breaking change report
- Verification result
- Test result
Requirements
- OpenAPI specification support
- GraphQL schema support
- Event schema support
- Broker access