Testing
This section summarizes the options available in spring-test
for Spring MVC applications.
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Servlet API Mocks: Mock implementations of Servlet API contracts for unit testing controllers, filters, and other web components. See Servlet API mock objects for more details.
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TestContext Framework: Support for loading Spring configuration in JUnit and TestNG tests, including efficient caching of the loaded configuration across test methods and support for loading a
WebApplicationContext
with aMockServletContext
. See TestContext Framework for more details. -
Spring MVC Test: A framework, also known as
MockMvc
, for testing annotated controllers through theDispatcherServlet
(that is, supporting annotations), complete with the Spring MVC infrastructure but without an HTTP server. See Spring MVC Test for more details. -
Client-side REST:
spring-test
provides aMockRestServiceServer
that you can use as a mock server for testing client-side code that internally uses theRestTemplate
. See Client REST Tests for more details. -
WebTestClient
: Built for testing WebFlux applications, but it can also be used for end-to-end integration testing, to any server, over an HTTP connection. It is a non-blocking, reactive client and is well suited for testing asynchronous and streaming scenarios. SeeWebTestClient
for more details.