Recipe 18Drive a Spring + Hibernate Project

Problem

You want use Cucumber to test a Java application using Spring and Hibernate for persistence. You want your tests to be isolated by database transactions so that your data doesn’t leak from test to test.

Ingredients

  • The Spring application development framework[111]

  • The Hibernate ORM library[112]

  • A database system such as HSQLDB[113]

  • Cucumber-JVM[114] to drive your Java code from Cucumber

  • Maven[115] to install the libraries you’ll need

Solution

Building an app with Spring can save you a lot of time, but you need to coordinate several moving parts: object-relational mappings, database transactions, and so on. In this recipe, we’re going to put together a Cucumber test to drive just one aspect of ...

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