Hi Kotest-ers :android-wave: I'm new to the concept of Test Factories in Kotest. I wonder if it coul...

# kotest

[Giorgio Vespucci]

Hi Kotest-ers 👋
I'm new to the concept of Test Factories in Kotest.
I wonder if it could relate to the "Test Suite" concept in other test frameworks.

I mean, is it a proper use of it for a SpringBootTest starting an application, making a single call to a controller, and then include a list of spec execution?

At the moment I have a bunch of SpringBootTest making always the same thing and I want to raise the context just once.
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[Davio]

I try to avoid @SpringBootTest as much as possible, for controllers I use @WebMvcTest with a list of controllers, if I need other classes such as ControllerAdvice I add them as well

[Giorgio Vespucci]

Interesting and thanks for your reply. simple smile
Well, indeed it's a test Vs. a GraphQL-Kotlin endpoint and I only followed what they describe on their GitHub.
Anyway, how is it related to my question on Kotest Test Factories?
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[Davio]

Hmm, sorry I don't use test factories, I think they should be used for very similar things, like different implementations of an interface

[abendt]

Afaik spring boot caches the context across different test classes https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/testing.html#testing-ctx-management

So i dont think you need to use test factories for that @Giorgio Vespucci