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Testing

This section summarizes the options available in spring-test for Spring MVC applications.

  • 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.

  • 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 a MockServletContext. See TestContext Framework for more details.

  • Spring MVC Test: A framework, also known as MockMvc, for testing annotated controllers through the DispatcherServlet (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 a MockRestServiceServer that you can use as a mock server for testing client-side code that internally uses the RestTemplate. 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. See WebTestClient for more details.