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Embedded Redis Server with Spring Boot Test 1. Overview Spring Data Redis provides an easy way to integrate with Redis instances. However, in some cases, it’s more convenient to use an embedded server than to create an environment with a real server. Therefore, we’ll learn how to set up and… Continue Reading spring-embedded-redis
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Testing with Google Truth 1. Overview Truth is a fluent and flexible open-source testing framework designed to make test assertions and failure messages more readable. In this article, we’ll explore the key features of the Truth framework and implement examples to showcase its capabilities. 2. Maven Dependencies First, we need… Continue Reading google-truth
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Gatling vs JMeter vs The Grinder: Comparing Load Test Tools DevOps Testing 1. Introduction Choosing the right tool for the job can be daunting. In this tutorial, we’ll simplify this by comparing three web application load testing tools – Apache JMeter, Gatling, and The Grinder–against a simple REST API. 2.… Continue Reading gatling-jmeter-grinder-comparison
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How to Test the @Scheduled Annotation 1. Introduction One of the available annotations in the Spring Framework is @Scheduled. We can use this annotation to execute tasks in a scheduled way. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to test the @Scheduled annotation. 2. Dependencies First, let’s start creating a Spring Boot Maven-based application… Continue Reading spring-testing-scheduled-annotation
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Guide to ApplicationContextRunner in Spring Boot 1. Overview It’s well known that auto-configuration is one of the key features in Spring Boot, but testing auto-configuration scenarios can be tricky. In the following sections, we’ll show how ApplicationContextRunner simplifies auto-configuration testing. 2. Test Auto-Configuration Scenarios ApplicationContextRunner is a utility class which runs… Continue Reading spring-boot-context-runner
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A Quick Guide to @TestPropertySource 1. Overview Spring brings many features to help us with testing our code. Sometimes we need to use particular configuration properties in order to set up the desired scenario in our test cases. In these situations, we can make use of the @TestPropertySource annotation. With this… Continue Reading spring-test-property-source
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Introduction to Serenity BDD 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll give an introduction to Serenity BDD – a great tool for applying Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). This is a solution for automated acceptance testing that generates well-illustrated testing reports. 2. Core Concepts The concepts behind Serenity follow the concepts behind… Continue Reading serenity-bdd
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Guide to PDFUnit 1. Introduction In this article, we’re going to explore the PDFUnit library for testing PDFs. Using the powerful APIs provided by PDFUnit, we can work with PDFs and verify text, images, bookmarks and a number of other things. We can eventually write quite complex test-cases using PDFUnit,… Continue Reading pdfunit
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Override Properties in Spring’s Tests 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll have a look at various ways to override properties in Spring’s tests. Spring actually provides a number of solutions for this, so we have quite a bit to explore here. 2. Dependencies Of course, in order to work with… Continue Reading spring-tests-override-properties
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REST API Testing with Karate 1. Overview In this article, we’ll introduce Karate, a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing framework for Java. 2. Karate and BDD Karate is built on top of Cucumber, another BDD testing framework, and shares some of the same concepts. One of these is the use… Continue Reading karate-rest-api-testing
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