> but if the goal of automated testing is to find problems before they become production problems, I've never seen "defined contracts" fulfill that goal But, h

> but if the goal of automated testing is to find problems before they become production problems, I've never seen "defined contracts" fulfill that goal But, have you seen contract testing fail to catch problems that E2E tests did catch? I think both of them end up tending to be regression tests a lot of the time.