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In order to have your Context sensitive tests actually commit to the database instead of rolling back at the end, all you need to do is add the @Rollback(false) annotation in your test method. You can also call getConnection().commit() or even use @NotTransactional and rely on methods which you test to manage transactions. Please remember that if you commit to the database, you need to clean up after yourself by calling for example deleteAllData() at some point. Otherwise data you committed will remain in the database and affect execution of subsequent tests, which is a bad practice.
There are really only two use-cases for doing this:
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