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 # Spring Cloud Contract
 
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-What you always need it confidence in pushing new features into a new application or service in a distributed system. This project provides support for Consumer Driven Contracts and service schemas in Spring applications, covering a range of options for writing tests, publishing them as assets, asserting that a contract is kept by producers and consumers, for HTTP and message-based interactions.
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 Feature ideas:
 
 - [x] Move DSL and stub runner code over from [Accurest](https://github.com/Codearte/accurest)