How To Test Databases Easily in a Spring Boot Application

Testing techniques with embedded databases and Testcontainers library

Kirshi Yin
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readDec 6, 2021

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Databases are a crucial back-end point of almost any application. Writing good tests helps us check whether the database functionality works as expected before going to production. Fortunately, there are convenient tools that assist us in this task.

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