Why are transactions not rolling back when using SpringJUnit4ClassRunner/MySQL/Spring/Hibernate

Question

I am doing unit testing and I expect that all data committed to the MySQL database will be rolled back... but this isn\'t the case. The data is being committed, even though my

Answer 1

Another way to fix your problem:

Instead of using:

org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect

, which creates a MyISAM table by default, hence not supporting transactions

Try using

org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

, which creates InnoDB tables, and thus supports transactions.