About Roger Hughes
Newly promoted to the main Spring framework is the Spring MVC Test Framework, which the Guys at Spring claim is a “first class JUnit support for testing client and server side Spring MVC code through a fluent API”1. In this and my next blog, I’m going to take a look at Spring’s MVC Test Framework and apply it to some of my existing sample code to figure out whether or not it does what it says on the tin.
The API has been designed with two ways of setting up server side tests. These are firstly, with a Spring context file and secondly, programmatically without a context file. The Guys at Spring refer to the programatic method as ‘standalone’ mode.
Setting tests up programmatically seems to be more akin to unit testing and is best used to unit test a particular controller class in isolation from its collaborators. On the other hand, the act of loading a Spring context file is really integration testing and is more suitable for end to end tests.
You can find a full list of blogs on testing techniques here.
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/07/getting-started-with-springs-mvc-test-framework-part-1.html
