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title: "Integration Testing with TestContainers - Air Market"
description: "Your tests mock the database and the queue, so they pass while the real thing breaks. This helps you write tests that run against actual databases, message queues and caches in Docker containers inst…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/testcontainers-integration-tests"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Integration Testing with TestContainers

Skill by [Aaron Stannard](/@aaronontheweb)

# Integration Testing with TestContainers

Test against a real database instead of a mock of one

## What this does

Your tests mock the database and the queue, so they pass while the real thing breaks. This helps you write tests that run against actual databases, message queues and caches in Docker containers instead. Reach for it when you want your integration tests to exercise the real infrastructure your app talks to.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Write integration tests with TestContainers
- Test against a real database
- Replace infrastructure mocks in xUnit tests

## Information

**Integration Testing with TestContainers at a glance**

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| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Aaron Stannard](/@aaronontheweb) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 23 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills](https://github.com/Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills/tree/316756fb309b9ee42d86d5db0d70504d62f3b0c3/skills/testcontainers) |
| GitHub stars | 1,123 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Integration Testing with TestContainers and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Integration Testing with TestContainers's check was run against**

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| Commit | 316756fb309b9ee42d86d5db0d70504d62f3b0c3 |
| Content hash | 2259fd3dff0c9ead1121201518bc89d1656f9ad1f37fadf1879981e36b30ec0c |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills/blob/316756fb309b9ee42d86d5db0d70504d62f3b0c3/skills/testcontainers/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Integration Testing with TestContainers](/security/testcontainers-integration-tests)

## About Integration Testing with TestContainers

Writing integration tests for .NET with TestContainers and xUnit.

It covers testing against infrastructure for real: databases, message queues and caches running in Docker containers, in place of mocks.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- database-patterns.md - reference
- infrastructure-patterns.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Integration Testing with TestContainers safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Integration Testing with TestContainers and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 316756fb309b, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/testcontainers-integration-tests.

### How do I install Integration Testing with TestContainers?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/testcontainers-integration-tests on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills/tree/316756fb309b9ee42d86d5db0d70504d62f3b0c3/skills/testcontainers. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Aaron Stannard](/@aaronontheweb)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/testcontainers-integration-tests>