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Testing with Spring and Spock 1. Introduction In this short tutorial, we’ll show the benefits of combining the supporting power of Spring Boot‘s testing framework and the expressiveness of the Spock framework whether that be for unit or integration tests. 2. Project Setup Let’s start with a simple web application. It can… Continue Reading spring-spock-testing
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Using WireMock Scenarios 1. Overview This quick tutorial will show how we can test a stateful HTTP-based API with WireMock. To get started with the library, have a look at our Introduction to WireMock tutorial first. 2. Maven Dependencies In order to be able to take advantage of the WireMock… Continue Reading wiremock-scenarios
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Introduction To XMLUnit 2.x 1. Overview XMLUnit 2.x is a powerful library that helps us test and verify XML content, and comes in particularly handy when we know exactly what that XML should contain. And so we’ll mainly be using XMLUnit inside unit tests to verify that what we have… Continue Reading xmlunit2
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REST Assured Authentication 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll analyze how we can authenticate with REST Assured to test and validate a secured API properly. The tool provides support for several authentication schemes: Basic Authentication Digest Authentication Form Authentication OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 And we’ll see examples for each… Continue Reading rest-assured-authentication
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Integration Testing with Maven 1. Overview Maven is the most popular build tool in the Java space, while integration testing is an essential part of the development process. Therefore, it’s a natural choice to configure and execute integration tests with Maven. In this tutorial, we’ll go over a number of different… Continue Reading maven-integration-test
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Setting the Log Level in Spring Boot when Testing 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll show how to set the log level when running tests for a Spring Boot application. Although we can mostly ignore the logs while our tests are passing, choosing the right log level can be critical… Continue Reading spring-boot-testing-log-level
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Testing with JGoTesting 1. Overview JGoTesting is a JUnit-compatible testing framework inspired by Go’s testing package. In this article, we’ll explore the key features of the JGoTesting framework and implement examples to showcase its capabilities. 2. Maven Dependency First, let’s add the jgotesting dependency to our pom.xml: <dependency> <groupId>org.jgotesting</groupId> <artifactId>jgotesting</artifactId>… Continue Reading jgotesting
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Cucumber and Scenario Outline 1. Introduction Cucumber is a BDD (Behavioral Driven Development) testing framework. Using the framework to write repetitive scenarios with different permutations of inputs/outputs can be quite time-consuming, difficult to maintain and of course frustrating. Cucumber came with a solution for reducing this effort by using the… Continue Reading cucumber-scenario-outline
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Testing Reactive Streams Using StepVerifier and TestPublisher 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll take a close look at testing reactive streams with StepVerifier and TestPublisher. We’ll base our investigation on a Spring Reactor application containing a chain of reactor operations. 2. Maven Dependencies Spring Reactor comes with several classes for testing… Continue Reading reactive-streams-step-verifier-test-publisher
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Guide to JSpec 1. Overview Test runner frameworks like JUnit and TestNG provide some basic assertion methods (assertTrue, assertNotNull, etc.). Then there are assertion frameworks like Hamcrest, AssertJ, and Truth, which provide fluent and rich assertion methods with names that usually begin with “assertThat”. JSpec is another framework that allows… Continue Reading jspec
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