Testcontainers – The past, the present and the future
Channel: Java User Group Switzerland
Date: 2020-09-17

Speaker: Kevin Wittek
Recorded: 2020-09-15

Unit testing is fine, but without proper integration testing, especially if you work with external resources like databases and other services, you might not know how your application will actually behave once it has been deployed to the real production environment.

Before Docker, configuring the environment for integration testing was painful – people were using fake database implementations, mocking servers, usually it was not cross-platform as well. However, thanks to Docker, now we can quickly prepare the environment for our tests.

In this talk, I would like to show how you can use Testcontainers – a popular JVM testing library that harnesses Docker to easily, reliably, spin up test dependencies.

As a special focus, we want to have a deeper look at the development and the addition of new features to the Testcontainers library in the recent past. But that’s not all, we will also share an outlook at the horizon of the future of Testcontainers and might even get a glimpse at some brand new features that are currently in active development.

Kevin Wittek is Testcontainers co-maintainer and Testcontainers-Spock author, passionate about FLOSS and Linux. Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. Software Craftsman and testing fan. Fell in love with TDD because of Spock. Believes in Extreme Programming as one of the best Agile methodologies. Likes to write MATLAB programs to support his wife in performing behavioural science experiments with pigeons. Plays the electric guitar and is a musician in his second life.

After many years working in the industry as an engineer, Kevin is now doing his PhD at on the topic of verification of Smart Contracts and is leading the Blockchain Research Lab at the Institute for Internet Security in Gelsenkirchen at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences.

Twitter: @Kiview

Organized by: Java User Group Switzerland
https://www.jug.ch/