Spring profiles and testing

Question

I\'ve got a web application where I have the typical problem that it requires different configuration files for different environments. Some configuration is placed in the a

Answer 1

public class LoginTest extends BaseTest {
    @Test
    public void exampleTest( ){ 
        // Test
    }
}

Inherits from a base test class (this example is testng rather than jUnit, but the ActiveProfiles is the same):

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:spring-test-config.xml" })
@ActiveProfiles(resolver = MyActiveProfileResolver.class)
public class BaseTest extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests { }

MyActiveProfileResolver can contain any logic required to determine which profile to use:

public class MyActiveProfileResolver implements ActiveProfilesResolver {
    @Override
    public String[] resolve(Class aClass) {
        // This can contain any custom logic to determine which profiles to use
        return new String[] { "exampleProfile" };
    }
}

This sets the profile which is then used to resolve dependencies required by the test.