Spring boot - Ignore all application.properties when running a unit test?

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I am using Spring Boot, and have a unit test that I want to ignore ALL application.properties values, and only use values from another file, application-test.properties

I see in a similar question that I can use @TestPropertySource to point to a test properties file, and I can also use it to override a couple of properties.

I've tried this, but it still seems to load the values from application.properties as well.

Is there a way to completely ignore application.properties for a single unit test?

My intent is to run this test with lots of DEFAULT values. I don't want to have to override them in my application-test.properties file, I want spring to use whatever defaults it has, as if the property was never set in application.properties

This might help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38711871/load-different-application-yml-in-springboot-test — A M, Feb 22 '21 at 22:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '21 at 11:49

I tried using the following in my application-test.properties file, and it seemed to ignore the properties from the application.properties file - I will update if I find better answers!

spring.config.name=test

NOTE: I think I found that here from the link shared above in the question comments by @A M

Spring boot - Ignore all application.properties when running a unit test?

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