Andres Almiray

Bio

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than two decades of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects. Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. Author of JReleaser.

Q&A

What were your first experiences with Testcontainers?

Ixchel Ruiz and Kevin Wittek showed me Testcontainers years ago at Gr8Conf. They convinced me that Testcontainers was the way to go to have better results for integration and functional tests.

What’s your favourite Testcontainers module?

Oracle Free

What are your favourite features for Testcontainers?

It just works

What’s the most memorable bug you managed to reproduce with a test using Testcontainers?

Integration of the “if exists” and “if not exists” SQL clauses with sequences between Oracle 23ai and Hibernate 6.x