testcontainers/workshop

Introduction

This workshop will explain how to use Testcontainers (https://www.testcontainers.com) in your Java applications.

We'll build a sample Spring Boot application, add tests to it, and explore Testcontainers for Java API you need to know to be effective with your tests.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Step 1: Getting Started
• Step 2: Exploring the app
• Step 3: Adding some tests
• Step 4: Your first Testcontainers integration
• Step 5: Hello, r u 200 OK?
• Step 6: Adding Redis
• Step 7: Test the API
• Step 8: Local Development Environment with Testcontainers

Next steps which you can do in any order based on the interest:

• Edge cases
• Data initialization strategies
• Migrating from Docker Compose
• Chaos Engineering
• Custom Modules