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Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Amuthan Ganeshan
Book Image

Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Amuthan Ganeshan

Overview of this book

Spring MVC helps you build flexible and loosely coupled web applications. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also, Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular web frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces, and Tapestry. The book progressively teaches you to configure the Spring development environment, architecture, controllers, libraries, and more before moving on to developing a full web application. It begins with an introduction to the Spring development environment and architecture so you're familiar with the know-hows. From here, we move on to controllers, views, validations, Spring Tag libraries, and more. Finally, we integrate it all together to develop a web application. You'll also get to grips with testing applications for reliability.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 12. Testing Your Application

For a web application developer, testing web applications is always a challenging task because getting a real-time test environment for web applications requires a lot of effort. But thanks to the Spring MVC Test framework, it simplifies the testing of Spring MVC applications.

But why do we need to consider putting effort into testing our application? Writing good test cases for our application is a kind of like buying an insurance policy for your application, although it does not add any functional values to your application, it will definitely save you time and effort by detecting functionality failures early. Consider your application growing bigger and bigger in terms of functionality—you need some mechanism to ensure that the existing functionalities were not disturbed by means of introducing new functionalities.

Testing frameworks provide you with such a mechanism, to ensure that your application's behavior is not altered due to refactoring or the...