Spring Boot Testing a REST Controller with Unit, Integration & Acceptance Tests

In this video we will be testing a Spring REST controller. We will be writing a full test suite with unit tests, integration tests & acceptance tests. We will be using JUnit5, Mockito, MockMvc & more. We will also be discussing the purpose of each type of test with their advantages & disadvantages.
Source code: github.com/kriscfoster/spring...
Spring Initialiser: start.spring.io/

[@KrisFoster1]

Unit testing starts: 1:40
Integration testing starts: 11:25
Acceptance testing starts: 21:50

[@arihantdhobe8290]

What do I need to do If I am writing a Batch Scheduler 15:08

[@blankvoidsea]

No more hours of scouring the Internet, this here is the good deal. Thanks!

[@KrisFoster1]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@malg5547]

This is the clearest video i've seen on this topic. Thanks for the tutorial, was really helpful.

[@xamael1989]

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[@Ddos2212]

You are a very good teacher. And I've seen a lot of teachers. Amazing job!

[@francksgenlecroyant]

Kris Foster always delivers good, quality and relevant content, thanks man!

[@madhanwilliams1464]

This video gave me a confidence to do unit and integration testing in my project. Thanks for this very neat and clear explanation

[@KrisFoster1]

Glad you enjoyed, thank you!

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I wanna say thank you for the crystal clear explanation.
Good stuff, very useful.

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Best tutorial out there about Testing. Thank you!

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Great Video, short but complete!

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[@nouribenz]

That was super helpful as a new tester 👌 thank you man 💪

[@MarkChan]

Thank you so much! You've explained it so clearly and it was easy to understand!

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Great tutorial, keep up with the good work! 😉

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Amazing video. Thank you so much. Been looking for this for some time.

[@oakinola]

Amazing video!! Thank you so much...clearly explains the difference between all 3 tests.

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Thank you. Excellent tutorial!

[@akhileshsharma5119]

Simple and easy explanation.

[@mohammadahmedragab837]

your explanation is very clear and simple, I like it, please do more videos about spring boot integration and unit testing ✨

[@KrisFoster1]

Thank you for the feedback!

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[@KrisFoster1]

Thank you @Dimon, glad you enjoyed!

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[@KrisFoster1]

Thank you for the feedback!

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just brilliant. respeKt !

[@alpavaidya412]

Very informative

[@mr.j4840]

Super super super! But you can use autowired without creating contructor.

[@KrisFoster1]

That's a great point @MR. J, yes you can

[@Das.Kleine.Krokodil]

Awesome!

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[@arihantdhobe8290]

What do I need to do If I am writing a Batch Scheduler 15:08

[@frankoppermann1877]

Very nice video. How do you handle external service calls in acceptance tests. Are you using mocks or real calls?

[@AmNotLegend]

is @MvcTest not a Unit test? you mocked its dependencies. for the acceptance test, is it good to use Rest-Template to simulate invoking API from a client side?

[@dusanristic4400]

It's not necessarily; you still have an integration between the actual HTTP Request and the Controller that handles the request. The rest is mocked to narrow the test (make it cheaper).
As they are cheaper than Acceptance Tests, I find them useful to test error scenarios such as 403, 404, 400 or any other business/validation logic that might be returned by the controller.

[@christianwulf8224]

I agree with you. It is a unit test, too. I would never call it an integration test. It does not integrate any two or more classes of the application.

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[@brunosteffen8173]

Hey,
cool Tutorial!
Can you also work those with Springsecurity?
I can't do the acceptance test without my credentials. My tests would even need to get data based on who is logged in... Can you still test those?

[@KrisFoster1]

Hi @Bruno Steffen, thank you for your comment! Things get a bit more complicated once spring security is added to the equation. There are a few different approaches I can think of that you could take:
1. turn off spring security for the test. You could create a new spring security configuration that basically disables security for your endpoints. You could then use this configuration for your test. Here's a stackoverflow discussion where they're talking about how to do that stackoverflow.com/questions/23894010/spring-boot-security-disable-security.
2. create a mock user before the test & authenticate as this user for your tests. This is probably a bit more complex but I think for acceptance tests this would be preferred because in the end, you want to make sure everything is working correctly.
Sorry this answer probably doesn't tell you much more than you already know. Good luck!

[@brunosteffen8173]

@@KrisFoster1 On a different note, can you run the springboot application without running the tests? all i could find were people saying you would need to skip plugins in the maven lifecycle... I thought if you run the application in your IDE, the maven lifecycle doesnt even get triggered.

[@KrisFoster1]

Yes if you run the application in from your ide or with mvn spring-boot:run from the command line the tests don't run. If you're using mvn compile /mvn package then they will

[@mr.j4840]

Spring Security series pls!

[@Das.Kleine.Krokodil]

Why add a mock to the context? What will change if you use @Mock instead of @MockBean in the controller?

[@themistocies50]

For some reason, an integration test execution was faster for me than simple unit test...

[@peshutanpavri1599]

Very Good tutorial, but the MockMVC code is ugly & confusing

[@user-fd3by9ne9y]

controller call is not happening

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Short and concise, awful dude.

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Best tutorial out there about Testing. Thank you!