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Unit Testing for Java Context

Explore writing unit tests for Java Spring applications by utilizing spring-test and JUnit frameworks. Understand how to configure test contexts, replace default dependencies, and verify component behavior without fully loading the Spring Boot context.

This lesson shows how to write a unit test using the Spring test features. We will remove the springboot-starter-test dependency from the pom.xml file, write our own dependencies and then use them to test the RecommenderImplementation class.

spring-test and junit dependency

We will start by replacing the springboot-starter-test dependency — which is automatically included in a Spring Boot project — with the spring-test dependency ...