Prevent Application / CommandLineRunner classes from executing during JUnit testing

Question

If in your TestCase class there is this annotations:

@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = {Application.class})

this will cause the

Answer 1

Previous answers didn't work wor me. I ended up using different profiles - example for the init method in Spring Boot:

SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(AppConfig.class);
app.setAdditionalProfiles("production");
app.run(args);

This is not executed during the tests so we're safe here.

All tests have their own profile "test" (which is useful in many other ways, too):

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class MyFancyTest {}

The command-line runner is annotated with the "production" profile so the tests ignore it:

@Component
@Profile("production")
public class JobCommandLineRunner implements CommandLineRunner {}