Philipp Krenn
Elastic | Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate at Elastic, organizer of ViennaDB & PapersWeLove Vienna.
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open source Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Talks
Containers for Real Integration Tests
13:00
How are you testing with your database? Mocking is not an option since you want to test the actual system. In-memory DBs, like H2 or HSQLDB, have subtle differences and not all datastores have in-memory cousins. Managing and running tests in parallel against the actual datastore is a pain. So what is the solution? There are some very neat solutions based on containers, namely the Docker-Maven-Plugin and TestContainers. From your tests you can start a lightweight, throwaway instance of your datastore and this talk will walk you through how to do that.