Testing Spring Boot Applications Fundamentals

2 Modules 4 Chapters 23 Lessons Easy

About this course

This course covers the fundamentals of writing tests for Spring Boot applications.

You'll learn to make the most of the testing libraries that are part of the Spring Boot Starter Test. This includes an introduction to JUnit 5 and Mockito. Furthermore, we'll take look into Hamcrest, AssertJ, JsonPath, and JSONAssert.

Please note: This course contains a subset of the Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass. If you already enrolled for the Bootcamp or Masterclass, you won't learn anything new with this course edition.

Get more information about this Fundamentals course here.

Important update: As of the 23rd of July 2021, this course is no longer available to purchase as I'm consolidating my course efforts. Either start with the Testing Spring Boot Applications Primer or enroll for the Masterclass. Existing course users can still work through this material.

Course Structure

PREMIUM

4 Chapters

Testing with the Spring Boot Starter Test

Discover the testing libraries that every Spring Boot application has on-board out-of-the-box: JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, Hamcrest, JSONAssert, JsonPath

Testing Spring Boot Applications Fundamentals

Course Structure

Testing with the Spring Boot Starter Test

Introduction to the Spring Boot Starter Test Dependency 2 Lessons

Anatomy of the Dependency

Managing Library Versions

Introduction to JUnit 5 9 Lessons

Writing Your First Test With Junit 5

Verify the Test Outcome With Assertions

Lifecycle of a Test

More on Assertions

Specifying the Name of a Test

Write Parameterized Tests

Your First JUnit 5 Extension

Happy-Path Testing

Parallelization of Tests

Introduction to Mockito 7 Lessons

Introduction to the Class Under Test

Mocking Method Calls With Mockito

Your First Test With Mockito

Mocking the Behaviour of the Repository

Instrumenting a Mock to Throw an Exception

Full Happy-Path Test With Mockito

Capture Method Arguments and Verify Invocations

Additional Test Libraries of the Starter 4 Lessons

Introduction to Hamcrest

Introduction to AssertJ

Introduction to JSONAssert

Introduction to JsonPath

Next Steps

Thank You for Completing the Fundamentals Edition

Introduction to the Spring Boot Starter Test Dependency

Introduction to JUnit 5

Introduction to Mockito

Additional Test Libraries of the Starter