As you might have read in the previous section, there are some different strategies and approaches to the tests in your application. I have briefly mentioned all of them, so now we may proceed to the practical aspects. Spring Boot provides a set of utilities that help in the implementation ofautomated tests. In order to enable these features in the project, you have to include thespring-boot-starter-teststarterto the dependencies. It imports not only thespring-testandspring-boot-testartifacts, but also some other useful test libraries, such as JUnit, Mockito, and AssertJ:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>