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

If you use maven, you can add this in pom.xml:

    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-failsafe-plugin
            
                -Dspring.profiles.active=test
            
        
        ...

Then, maven should run your integration tests (*IT.java) using this arugument, and also IntelliJ will start with this profile activated - so you can then specify all properties inside

application-test.yml

and you should not need "-default" properties.