https://www.hascode.com/tags/bom/ Recent content in Bom on Micha Kops' Tech Notes Hugo en Copyright © 2010 - 2025 Micha Kops. #e9d956c0c0154a221ad83c925346a8fa0e72f866 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100 https://www.hascode.com/using-throwaway-containers-for-integration-testing-with-java-junit-5-and-testcontainers./ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100 https://www.hascode.com/using-throwaway-containers-for-integration-testing-with-java-junit-5-and-testcontainers./ <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>A lot of boilerplate code is written when developers need to test their applications with different connected systems like databases, stream platforms and other collaborators.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Docker allows to handle those dependencies but there is still some glue code required to bind the container’s lifecycle and the configuration to the concrete integration test.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Testcontainers is a testing library that offers lightweight throwaway instances of anything able to run in a Docker container, with bindings to configure the specific containers and also provides wrappers to manage our own custom containers.</p> </div>