# Working with jOOQ and Flyway using Testcontainers — Test with the @JooqTest slice

> The @JooqTest annotation loads only the persistence layer components and auto-configures jOOQ's DSLContext.

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## Knowledge

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The @JooqTest annotation loads only the persistence layer components and auto-configures jOOQ's DSLContext. Use the Testcontainers special JDBC URL to start a Postgres container.

Create UserRepositoryJooqTest.java

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```java
package com.testcontainers.demo.domain;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import org.jooq.DSLContext;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.jooq.JooqTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.jdbc.Sql;

@JooqTest(
  properties = {
    "spring.test.database.replace=none",
    "spring.datasource.url=jdbc:tc:postgresql:16-alpine:///db",
  }
)
@Sql("/test-data.sql")
class UserRepositoryJooqTest {

  @Autowired
  DSLContext dsl;

  UserRepository repository;

  @BeforeEach
  void setUp() {
    this.repository = new UserRepository(dsl);
  }

  @Test
  void shouldCreateUserSuccessfully() {
    User user = new User(null, "John", "john@gmail.com");

    User savedUser = repository.createUser(user);

    assertThat(save
```

Here's what the test does

@JooqTest loads only the persistence layer and auto-configures DSLContext. The Testcontainers special JDBC URL (jdbc:tc:postgresql:16-alpine:///db) starts a PostgreSQL container automatically. Because flyway-core is on the classpath, Spring Boot runs the Flyway migrations from src/main/resources/db/migration on startup. @Sql("/test-data.sql") loads the test data before each test. The UserRepository is instantiated manually with the injected DSLContext.

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