41. Testing

41. Testing

Spring Boot provides a number of utilities and annotations to help when testing your application. Test support is provided by two modules; spring-boot-test contains core items, and spring-boot-test-autoconfigure supports auto-configuration for tests.

Most developers will just use the spring-boot-starter-test 'Starter' which imports both Spring Boot test modules as well has JUnit, AssertJ, Hamcrest and a number of other useful libraries.

41.1 Test scope dependencies

If you use the spring-boot-starter-test 'Starter' (in the test scope), you will find the following provided libraries:

• JUnit — The de-facto standard for unit testing Java applications.
• Spring Test & Spring Boot Test — Utilities and integration test support for Spring Boot applications.
• AssertJ — A fluent assertion library.
• Hamcrest — A library of matcher objects (also known as constraints or predicates).
• Mockito — A Java mocking framework.
• JSONassert — An assertion library for JSON.
• JsonPath — XPath for JSON.

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