How do i write Junit4 tests without Spring transactional test support?

Question

I would like to test transaction rollbacks in my application service. As a result i do not want to use spring's AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests with the @Transactional annotation as that wraps my test method in a transaction.

I know spring also offers AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests for tests without transactions. However i need to have some transactions to save data into my database and also query data for assertions after running the service under test.

How can i write a Junit 4 spring transactional test without the default transaction test management?

Answer 1

The spring docs should cover this in their testing chapter

What you might want is to configure your test without the default TransactionalTestExecutionListener like this

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@TestExecutionListeners({DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class,DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener.class})
public class SimpleTest {

    @Test
    public void testMethod() {
        // execute test logic...
   }
}