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Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Alex Antonov
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Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Alex Antonov

Overview of this book

The Spring framework provides great flexibility for Java development, which also results in tedious configuration work. Spring Boot addresses the configuration difficulties of Spring and makes it easy to create standalone, production-grade Spring-based applications. This practical guide makes the existing development process more efficient. Spring Boot Cookbook 2.0 Second Edition smartly combines all the skills and expertise to efficiently develop, test, deploy, and monitor applications using Spring Boot on premise and in the cloud. We start with an overview of the important Spring Boot features you will learn to create a web application for a RESTful service. Learn to fine-tune the behavior of a web application by learning about custom routes and asset paths and how to modify routing patterns. Address the requirements of a complex enterprise application and cover the creation of custom Spring Boot starters. This book also includes examples of the new and improved facilities available to create various kinds of tests introduced in Spring Boot 1.4 and 2.0, and gain insights into Spring Boot DevTools. Explore the basics of Spring Boot Cloud modules and various Cloud starters to make applications in “Cloud Native” and take advantage of Service Discovery and Circuit Breakers.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Writing tests using Cucumber

Unit testing has been an expected part of the software development life cycle for quite some time now, and one can hardly imagine writing code without having unit tests along with it. The art of testing does not stay the same, and advances in testing philosophies have extended the concept of unit testing even further, introducing things such as service testing, integration testing, and, lastly, what is known as BDD that proposes to create the test suites describing the application behavior at large without getting down to the minute implementation details at the lower levels of the code. One such framework, which has gained a lot of popularity first in the Ruby world and later expanding to other languages including Java, is the Cucumber BDD.

For the purpose of this recipe, we will pick up on our previous example and continue enhancing the testing suite...