Did you ever found yourself saying: I usually ignore testing my Spring Web MVC controller endpoints because the security setup is tricky. That belongs to the past. With
Testing Spring Boot Applications With MockMvc and @WebMvcTest
Spring Boot Test Slices: Overview and Usage
Philip Riecks
Spring Boot offers great support to test different slices (web, database, etc.) of your application. This allows you to write tests for specific parts of your application in
Testing Spring Boot Applications with Kotlin and Testcontainers
Philip Riecks
Recently I introduced Testcontainers for a Kotlin based Spring Boot application. I jumped right into the setup and immediately ran into an issue. Even though the interoperability of
Improve Build Times with Context Caching from Spring Test
Philip Riecks
Nothing is more tiresome than long feedback cycles due to slow builds. I've recently invested one day to improve the integration test setup for a larger project. The
Write Integration Tests For Your Spring WebSocket Endpoints
Philip Riecks
WebSockets allow establishing a full-duplex, two-way communication between the client and the server. With Spring WebSocket, we can bootstrap our WebSocket application in minutes. While there is excellent
Five JUnit 5 Features You Might Not Know Yet
Philip Riecks
Writing your first test with JUnit 5 is straightforward. Annotate your test method with @Test and verify the result using assertions. Apart from the basic testing functionality of
Spring WebClient exchange vs. retrieve Comparison
Philip Riecks
As the Spring Framework team won't add new features to the RestTemplate, the general recommendation is to start using the Spring WebFlux WebClient. Besides the reactive and non-blocking
Test Spring WebClient with MockWebServer from OkHttp
Philip Riecks
In one of the last blog post, I demonstrated how to test the Spring RestTemplate with @RestClientTest. With this elegant solution, you can easily test parts of your
Reuse Containers With Testcontainers for Fast Integration Tests
Philip Riecks
Testcontainers is now for almost a year part of my core testing libraries set. It allows you to control Docker containers for external parts of your application (e.g.
Thymeleaf OAuth2 Login with Spring Security and AWS Cognito
Philip Riecks
Securing your frontend application with a login and managing a user pool is something you can either write for yourself or use an external identity provider for. If
