Integration Testing

Clean Test Automation Monthly 8 / 2024

The Clean Test Automation Monthly is a monthly blog post that highlights the best test automation content which I read during the current month. This blog post highlights the best test automation content of August 2024. Read More

Clean Test Automation Monthly 5 / 2024

The Clean Test Automation Monthly is a monthly blog post that highlights the best test automation content which I read during the current month. This blog post highlights the best test automation content of May 2024. Read More

It might seem convenient to initialize our test data with production code because this approach looks like a quick and easy way for setting up different test scenarios. In fact, it's a risk that can undermine the very purpose of our testing efforts. This blog post identifies the problems we face if we initialize our test data with production code and describes how we can write robust and useful tests. Read More

When we are writing integration tests for Spring Boot (web) applications, we typically don't want to use the configuration that's used when we run our application in the development, test, or production environment. This blog post describes how we can leverage Spring profiles when we have to create a separate configuration for our integration tests. Read More

Writing Integration Tests for Spring Boot Web Applications: Build Setup

When we want to write integration tests for Spring Boot web applications, the first thing that we have to do is to create a build that makes our life as easy as possible. In other words, we must create a build that allows us to decide what happens when we build our project. This blog post describes how we can create a Maven build that fulfills this requirement. Read More