tutorial - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-dbunit.html http://zenoconsulting.wikidot.com/blog:8 select part of table - http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2005/10/dbunit_made_easy.html Some tips of using DBunit, like workaround if no primary key table and format custom timestamp - http://www.systemmobile.com/?s=DBUnit Scriptable DBUnit - http://musingsofaprogrammingaddict.blogspot.com/2009/02/scriptable-data-set-for-dbunit.html http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/01/db-unit-testing-with-dbunit-json-hsqldb.html