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= How Can I Mark that a Contract Is in Progress


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If a contract is in progress, it means that the, on the producer side, tests are not generated, but the stub is generated. You can read more about this in xref:project-features-contract/common-top-elements.adoc#contract-dsl-in-progress[this section] of the documentation.

In a CI build, before going to production, you would like to ensure that no in-progress contracts are on the classpath, because they may lead to false positives. For this reason, by default, in the Spring Cloud Contract plugin, we set the value of `failOnInProgress` to `true`. If you want to allow such contracts when tests are to be generated, set the flag to `false`.
