Hard Mock Cafe

While unit testing is always preferable, integration tests are a good and necessary supplement to either perform end to end tests, or tests involving (third party) backends. Databases are such a candidate where integrations might make sense: usually we encapsulate persistence with some kind of repository service layer, which we can mock in tests running against the repository. But when it comes to testing the repository itself, integration tests are quite useful. Spring integration tests allow you to test functionality against a running Spring application, and thereby allows to test against a running database instance. But as you do in unit tests, you have to perform a proper set up of test data, and clean up the database afterwards. That's what this article published on DZone is about: proper database set- and clean-up in Spring integration tests with MongoDB.