Spring Boot Test – How to stop DEBUG logs

Run the Spring Boot tests and find out the console is full of DEBUG logs, try to control the logging level in the application.yml, but the unit tests just ignore the settings.

import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
//...

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class TestSequenceService {

    @Autowired
    SequenceService sequenceService;

    @Test
    public void testSequence() {

        //...
    }

}

21:34:19.647 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner - SpringJUnit4ClassRunner ...
21:34:19.653 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.test.context.BootstrapUtils - Instantiating CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate from class ...
21:34:19.659 [main] DEBUG org.springframework...
21:34:19.673 [main] DEBUG org.springframework...
21:34:19.683 [main] DEBUG org.springframework...
//...

Solution

To fix it, create a logback-test.xml in the src/test/resources folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml" />
	<logger name="org.springframework" level="ERROR"/>
    <logger name="com.mkyong" level="DEBUG"/>
    <logger name="org.mongodb" level="ERROR"/>
</configuration>

References

1. Spring Boot – Logging
2. logback.xml Example
3. Logback – Disable logging in Unit Test