Spring-boot default profile for integration tests

Question

Spring-boot utilizes Spring profiles (http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-profiles.html) which allow for instance to have separate co

Answer 1

Another way to do this is to define a base (abstract) test class that your actual test classes will extend :

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest()
@ActiveProfiles("staging")
public abstract class BaseIntegrationTest {
}

Concrete test :

public class SampleSearchServiceTest extends BaseIntegrationTest{

    @Inject
    private SampleSearchService service;

    @Test
    public void shouldInjectService(){
        assertThat(this.service).isNotNull();
    }
} 

This allows you to extract more than just the @ActiveProfiles annotation. You could also imagine more specialised base classes for different kinds of integration tests, e.g. data access layer vs service layer, or for functional specialties (common @Before or @After methods etc).