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Challenge: Method-Level Security

Explore how to secure Spring Boot applications by writing method-level test cases that validate delete operations with and without proper authorization. This lesson guides you through creating tests using @WithMockUser to simulate different user roles, helping you ensure that security policies are properly enforced on sensitive operations.

We’ve tested that adding a new Item to inventory is properly secured. It’s left as an exercise to verify that the DELETE operation also works as expected.

Problem statement

Let’s write at least two test cases for deleting authorized and unauthorized ...