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In a system of twenty microservices, the end-to-end tests take a long time and fail constantly. How would you apply contract testing, and what won't it cover?

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This checks whether the candidate understands how consumer-driven contracts replace most of the brittle e2e tests in microservices, and whether they can honestly name the limits of the approach: a contract checks the shape of the interaction, not the business logic, and requires organizational agreements between teams.

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