JUnit5 Java Maven Snippet

Goals Use JUnit Maven BOM for version alignment Add minimal dependencies for JUnit5 Java Projekt Setup Excerpt from the Maven project’s pom.xml: <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit-bom</artifactId> <version>5.7.1</version> <type>pom</type> <scope>import</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId> <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> JUnit5 does not work with older versions of the Maven Compiler Plugin and the Surefire Plugin used for test execution. Setting their versions in the pom.xml is done like this: ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 85 words · Micha Kops

Using Throwaway Containers for Integration Testing with Java, JUnit 5 and Testcontainers.

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. 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. 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. ...

January 30, 2019 · 6 min · 1110 words · Micha Kops