Rethinking integration testing with Testcontainers

A presentation at Devoxx UK in in London, UK by Oleg Šelajev

Before Docker, configuring the environment for integration testing was painful – people were using fake database implementations, mocking servers, usually it was not cross-platform as well. However, thanks to Docker, now we can quickly prepare the environment for our tests.

In this lab, I would like to show how you can use Testcontainers – a popular testing library that harnesses Docker to easily, reliably, spin up test dependencies.

You’ll go through the process adding powerful integration tests to your codebase (we’ll use a Spring Boot app) without the headache of managing external service dependencies manually. And get acquainted with all necessary Testcontainers concepts to write elegant, efficient, and reliable integration tests.

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