This chapter covers the test module of Spring and the APIs used for unit and integration testing Spring applications. The following topics are covered here:
Spring's
TestContextframework andSpringJUnit4ClassRunnerSpring profiles
Mocking environments with
MockEnvironmentandMockPropertySourceMocking a JNDI lookup with
SimpleNamingContextBuilderandExpectedLookupTemplateTesting with
ReflectionTestUtilsExploring Spring annotations for unit testing; the annotations covered are
@ContextConfiguration,ApplicationContextInitializer,@WebAppConfiguration,@ContextHierarchy,@ActiveProfiles,@ProfileValueSourceConfiguration,@TestPropertySource,@DirtiesContext,@TestExecutionListeners,@IfProfileValue,@Timed, and@RepeatUnit testing Spring MVC with
MockHttpServletRequest,MockHttpSession, andModelAndViewAssert, as well as Spring beans with request scope and Spring beans with session scopeMocking a servlet container with
MockMvcTransaction management with...