Tag: testcontainers

They are not alternatives. WebApplicationFactory boots your app, Testcontainers boots your dependencies. Measured on .NET SDK 10.0.201: a container fixture costs 1.7 s per class against 10 ms for SQLite, and a HasMaxLength(16) violation that Postgres rejects with 22001 is silently accepted by SQLite.

A complete guide to running ASP.NET Core integration tests against a real SQL Server 2022 using Testcontainers 4.11 and EF Core 11: WebApplicationFactory wiring, IAsyncLifetime, swapping the DbContext registration, applying migrations, parallelism, Ryuk cleanup, and CI gotchas.