Level Up Your Integration Testing With Testcontainers

After a 2 year break we are back to the roots of this meetup in-person highly technical meetups for Java developers. A pizza lunch will be served during the session.

Level Up Your Integration Testing With Testcontainers with Cora Iberkleid and Dan Vega

Traditional approaches to integration testing—using shared, local, or in-memory databases—fall short for today's modern developer.
Developers today are building cloud native distributed microservices and taking advantage of a rich variety of backing services. This explosion of applications and backing services introduces new challenges in creating the necessary environments for integration testing. To be useful and effective, these environments must be easy to create and they must resemble production as closely as possible. New solutions are needed to make this need a reality.

Enter Testcontainers!

Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests and makes it incredibly easy to create lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

In this talk, you will learn when and how to use Testcontainers. We will cover the fundamentals and walk through a step-by-step example using a Spring Boot application that we build from scratch. As a bonus, we'll highlight some new features in Spring Boot 3.0 along the way!

Cora Iberkleid

Cora Iberkleid is a Developer Advocate for Modern Applications at VMware Tanzu, helping developers and enterprises navigate modern practices and technologies, focusing on cloud native architecture, modern CI/CD, Spring, and Kubernetes.
Prior to joining VMware, Cora was an Advisory Solutions Engineer at Pivotal. She also spent nearly a decade at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, helping customers design and build enterprise integration applications. Through this experience, she developed an understanding and empathy for complex organizational challenges, and she strives to incorporate this empathy into her everyday work.

Dan Vega

Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. He has been developing software for the web for over 20 years and his superpower is problem-solving. Dan is a blogger, YouTuber, course creator, and speaker. He is a lifelong learner and his passion is sharing his knowledge with the developer community. Dan lives near Cleveland Ohio with his beautiful wife and 2 daughters. When he isn’t writing code or teaching he enjoys spending time with his family, lifting weights, running, or reading a good book.