how to run/turn off selective tests based on profiles in spring boot

Question

I have a spring-boot application for which I am writing IT tests.

The data for the tests comes from application-dev.properties when I activ

Answer 1

I wanted to exclude tests that required an external service but I couldn't get that to work the way I wanted (more or less a non-existent @IfNotProfileValue).

As an alternative, I used the JUnit Assume.assumeThat which provided the behavior I wanted. e.g.,

Assume.assumeThat("Skipping Test: No username property", this.username, not(isEmptyString()));

I ended up not using a profile to drive it but you should be able to define a property or use the Environment to determine if a profile is active.

The assumeThat can be used in @Test and @Before methods but be aware that the @After methods will still run so cleanup might need a code guard.