In this blog post I'd like to demonstrate how I integrate Testcontainers in Spring Boot tests for running integration tests with a database. I'm not using Testcontainers' Spring Boot modules. How it works with them, I will show in a separate blog post. All samples can be found on GitHub. Why Testcontainers? …

I create a sample Groovy project for Maven, that mixes Spock tests and JUnit 5 tests in one project. In the next section I'll describe how to set up such kind of Maven project. Enable Groovy in the Project First at all, you have to enable Groovy in your project. One possibility is to add the GMavenPlus Plugin to your …

This post demonstrates how JUnit 5 can be used in pre-Java 8 projects and explains why it could be a good idea. JUnit 5 requires at least Java 8 as runtime environment, so you want to update your whole project to Java 8. But sometimes there exists reason why you can't immediately update your project to Java 8. For …