• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ah! That’s what I didn’t understand. So its not a container for executing unit tests. Its a container for dependencies to support unit tests. That is not clear from the readme unless I missed something

    edit - the title could be “Self terminating containers for real world dependencies to support your unit tests”

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      3 months ago

      This feels more like an integration test than a unit test to me. Maybe that’s not an important distinction to make, but it feels like it would also help communicate intent.

      • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev
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        3 months ago

        I’m reading this scratching my head going “If your unit tests need a database they ain’t a unit test”.

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      3 months ago

      Thanks man, my brain was short-circuited on Testcontainers so I couldn’t write better. Also I am stealing the title.