Testing Spring Boot App with JUnit, Mockito & Testcontainers

Write Unit tests and Integration tests for Spring Boot App and Spring WebFlux App using JUnit, Mockito & Testcontainers

In this course, you will learn how to write Unit tests and Integration tests in BDD style for Spring Boot applications as well as Spring WebFlux applications using JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, Hamcrest, JsonPath, and Testcontainers frameworks.

What you’ll learn

  • Learn to write industry-standard Unit and Integration tests in BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) style using Spring Boot Starter Test dependency from scratch.
  • Learn how to use BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) format that is given/when/then to write Unit tests..
  • Learn to Unit test Spring boot application Repository layer.
  • Learn to Unit test Spring boot application Service layer.
  • Learn to Unit test Spring boot application Controller layer – Unit test REST API’s.
  • Learn how to do Integration testing for the Spring boot application.
  • You will learn to use the most important Unit Testing annotations – @SpringBootTest, @WebMvcTest, @DataJpaTest, and @MockBean.
  • Use all the frameworks in Spring Boot Starter Test – JUnit, Spring Test, Spring Boot Test, AssertJ, Hamcrest, Mockito, JSONassert, and JsonPath..
  • You will learn to write Unit tests using Mocks and Stubs created with Mockito.
  • Learn how to use Mockito annotations to create mock objects..
  • Learn to write Integration Tests using a MySQL database.
  • You will learn to write independent Integration tests for RESTFUL web services talking with MULTIPLE LAYERS – controller, service, and repository layers..
  • Learn to write Integration Tests using a Testcontainers.
  • Learn Building Reactive CRUD REST APIs using Spring WebFlux and MongoDB.
  • Learn Unit Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs using JUnit and Mockito.
  • Learn Integration Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs using WebTestClient.

Course Content

  • Introduction –> 7 lectures • 25min.
  • Spring Boot Project Setup –> 4 lectures • 26min.
  • Spring Boot – Unit Testing Repository Layer –> 14 lectures • 1hr 38min.
  • Spring Boot – Unit Testing Service Layer –> 12 lectures • 1hr 27min.
  • Spring Boot – Unit Test Controller Layer (Unit Test REST APIs) –> 17 lectures • 1hr 46min.
  • Spring Boot – Integration Testing using Local MySQL Database –> 11 lectures • 59min.
  • Spring Boot – Integration Testing using Testcontainers –> 8 lectures • 52min.
  • Assignments and Solutions –> 2 lectures • 54min.
  • Quiz – Test Yourself –> 0 lectures • 0min.
  • Spring WebFlux – Build Reactive CRUD REST APIs –> 13 lectures • 1hr 15min.
  • Spring WebFlux – Unit Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs –> 7 lectures • 50min.
  • Spring WebFlux – Integration Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs –> 7 lectures • 39min.
  • What’s Next? –> 2 lectures • 1min.

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Requirements

In this course, you will learn how to write Unit tests and Integration tests in BDD style for Spring Boot applications as well as Spring WebFlux applications using JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, Hamcrest, JsonPath, and Testcontainers frameworks.

 

Important note: This course updated to use Spring Boot 3.

 

Type the code along with me in the videos. If you follow along with me then this will enhance your learning experience.

 

The source code and PDF files (class notes) are available for download.

 

Spring Boot Overview

Spring Boot is an opinionated framework that helps developers build Spring-based applications quickly and easily.

The main goal of Spring Boot is to quickly create Spring-based applications without requiring developers to write the same boilerplate configuration again and again.

Spring Boot is a very popular framework to develop REST web services and microservices.

 

Spring WebFlux Overview

Spring 5 includes Spring WebFlux, which provides reactive programming support for web applications.

Spring WebFlux internally uses Project Reactor and its publisher implementations, Flux and Mono.

The new framework supports two programming models:

  • Annotation-based reactive components
  • Functional routing and handling

In this course, we will focus on building reactive REST APIs using annotation-based reactive components.

 

What you’ll learn?

  • Learn to write industry-standard Unit and Integration tests in BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) style using Spring Boot Starter Test dependency from scratch
  • Learn how to use BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) format that is given/when/then to write Unit tests.
  • Learn to Unit test the Spring boot application Repository layer
  • Learn to Unit test the Spring boot application Service layer
  • Learn to Unit test the Spring boot application Controller layer
  • Learn how to do Integration testing for the Spring boot application.
  • Learn how to do Integration testing using Testcontainers // very important
  • You will learn to use the most important Unit Testing ANNOTATIONS – @SpringBootTest, @WebMvcTest, @DataJpaTest, and @MockBean
  • Use ALL the FRAMEWORKS in Spring Boot Starter Test – JUnit, Spring Test, Spring Boot Test, AssertJ, Hamcrest, Mockito, JSONassert, and JsonPath.
  • You will learn to write Unit tests using Mocks and Stubs created with Mockito
  • Learn how to use Mockito annotations to create mock objects.
  • Learn to Write Integration Tests using a MySQL database.
  • You will learn to Write INDEPENDENT Integration tests for RESTFUL web services by talking with MULTIPLE LAYERS – controller, service, and repository layers.
  • Learn Building Reactive CRUD REST APIs using Spring WebFlux
  • Learn Unit Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs
  • Learn Integration Testing Reactive CRUD REST APIs

Tools and Technologies used in this course:

Technologies and Libraries:

  1. Java 11+
  2. Spring Boot
  3. Spring MVC
  4. Spring Data JPA ( Hibernate)
  5. JUnit 5 Framework
  6. Mockito 4 (Latest)
  7. Hamcrest framework
  8. AssertJ Library
  9. JsonPath Library
  10. Spring WebFlux
  11. MongoDB

IDE:

  • IntelliJ IDEA

Database:

  • H2 In-memory database ( for repository layer testing)
  • MySQL database ( for Integration testing)
  • MongoDB database (for Integration testing)

 

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“✔ Well structured course covering all layers of testing

✔ Implement each method with the “right to the point” explanation

✔ Nice introduction to TestContainers

✔ Easy to code along

✔ Fast answers from the instructor

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