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If you want to see working tests before reading anything, clone the demo and run it first — it covers everything described here against a real stack:

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Otherwise, keep reading to understand the setup step by step.

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Clone the demo project and run the full test suite against a real stack — no configuration needed beyond Docker.

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git clone https://github.com/garlandframework/garland-demo
cd garland-demo
docker-compose up -d
mvn test -pl tests

docker-compose up -d starts PostgreSQL, Kafka, and MongoDB. Maven runs the full suite against two Spring Boot microservices — user-service and projection-service — that are bundled in the repo.

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