How do I unit test persistence?

Question

As a novice in practicing test-driven development, I often end up in a quandary as to how to unit test persistence to a database.

I know that technically this would

Answer 1

For JDBC based projects, my Acolyte framework can be used: http://acolyte.eu.org . It allows to mockup data access you want to tests, benefiting from JDBC abstraction, without having to manage a specific test DB.