Spring/Hibernate testing: Inserting test data after DDL creation

Question

I have a Spring/Hibernate webapp that has some integration tests that run on an in-memory HSQL database. Hibernate takes this blank database and creates all of my test tables a

Answer 1

If you're talking about JUnit tests and using AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests there's methods you can override like onSetupBeforeTransaction that provide a hook to pre-populate test table data etc.