# From your Backstage root directory, go to your backend package, or to a backend plugin
cd plugins/my-plugin-backend
yarn add --dev @backstage/backend-test-utils

Environment variables

BACKSTAGE_TEST_DISABLE_DOCKER
- Setting the value to 1 disables Docker for tests
CI
- Setting the value to 1 enables long-running tests, including the ones utilizing Docker
BACKSTAGE_TEST_DOCKER_REGISTRY
- Docker registry mirror address where to pull images for tests, for example mycompany.docker.io/mirror
- See documentation for information about authentication (DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG)

Connection strings for different databases that are used for testing. The value of the string should point to the running instance of the database.

BACKSTAGE_TEST_DATABASE_POSTGRES13_CONNECTION_STRING
BACKSTAGE_TEST_DATABASE_POSTGRES12_CONNECTION_STRING
BACKSTAGE_TEST_DATABASE_POSTGRES11_CONNECTION_STRING
BACKSTAGE_TEST_DATABASE_POSTGRES9_CONNECTION_STRING
BACKSTAGE_TEST_DATABASE_MYSQL8_CONNECTION_STRING

Documentation

Keywords

backstage

test

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Package last updated on 15 Jul 2025

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