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= Testcontainers Spring Component
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:page-source: components/camel-testcontainers-spring/src/main/docs/testcontainers-spring.adoc
:docTitle: Testcontainers Spring
:artifactId: camel-testcontainers-spring
:description: Camel unit testing with Spring and testcontainers
:since: 2.22
:supportLevel: Stable

*Since Camel {since}*

Testing camel components is sometime complex because the 3rd party system a component interacts with does not provide testing facilities and/or is only available as a native application. To reduce this complexity, *Camel Testcontainers Spring* extends camel spring test support providing a way to create and interact with containerized applications.

This module is an extension to the camel-testcontainers component to add support for Spring.
Therefore see the documentation for testcontainers for more details.
