About DbUnit

DbUnit is a mature, proven JUnit extension founded in 2002.

It is a JUnit extension targeted at database projects that, among other things, puts the database into a known state between test runs. This is an excellent way to avoid the myriad of problems that can occur when one test case corrupts the data and causes subsequent tests to fail or exacerbate the damage.

While dbUnit is most commonly used in automated tests using a database to setup, verify, and cleanup the database tables, it is also a convenient utility for importing and exporting data, whether via code or the dbunit-maven-plugin.

Note: Since 3.0.0, DbUnit supports JUnit 5 and drops JUnit 4 support.

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Help Wanted

While dbUnit is a very mature product (its first commits date back to 2002), it has many needed improvements; not only new features and bug fixes, but documentation, refactoring, and modernization! We are a small team working on improvements and issues along the way and need more help.

If you have interest in helping dbUnit, please email the developers list to initiate discussion: dbunit-developer@lists.sourceforge.net We will gladly help you as needed with your ideas and contributions and look to add you as a committer when ready.

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