Articles for March, 2018

Setting up Kafka Brokers for Testing with Kafka-Unit

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

When writing test for applications that interact with Kafka brokers we often need to setup a decent environment including an instance of Kafka and ZooKeeper.

Though Kafka ships with some classes for testing, setting up a simple testing environment is quite easier with the kafka-unit library that offers JUnit test rule support or a fast programmatic setup within no time.

In the following short example, I’d like to show how create a simple setup using Maven, Surefire and kafka-unit. (more…)

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