07 - Configure Spring Boot Test Profiles

Define custom properties for testing environments

Introduction

When developing an application, tests should have their own environment. To achieve this, we can define a specific application.yml within the test domain:

Follow the explanation in this StackOverflow answer to configure it.

Getting started

First we need to define the application.yml file for the main applications in its src/main/resources path. This file will contain all the global parameters shared with any profile.

After that, create the path src/test/resources/config. Inside this path, create another application.yml file with the test properties that will override the default ones.

The finishing results should look like this:

Spring Boot - Test properties

Where:

• The tests logs show that we are indeed executing tests against an embedded in-memory database instead of the one defined for production