Spring-boot default profile for integration tests

Question

Spring-boot utilizes Spring profiles which allows to have separate config for different environments. One way I use this feature is to configure the test database to be used by integration tests. I wonder, however: is it necessary to create my own profile 'test' and explicitly activate this profile in each test file? Right now, I do it in the following way:

1. Create application-test.properties inside src/main/resources

2. Write test-specific config there (just the database name for now)

3. In every test file, include:

   @ActiveProfiles("test")
   

Is there a smarter / more concise way? For instance, a default test profile?

Edit 1: This question pertains to Spring-Boot 1.4.1

Answer 1

As far as I know there is nothing directly addressing your request - but I can suggest a proposal that could help:

You could use your own test annotation that is a meta annotation comprising @SpringBootTest and @ActiveProfiles("test"). So you still need the dedicated profile but avoid scattering the profile definition across all your test.

This annotation will default to the profile test and you can override the profile using the meta annotation.

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@SpringBootTest
@ActiveProfiles
public @interface MyApplicationTest {
  @AliasFor(annotation = ActiveProfiles.class, attribute = "profiles") String[] activeProfiles() default {"test"};
}