Testing Spring Boot Applications: An Introduction to Unit and Integration Testing

Learn unit and integration testing for Spring Boot apps with JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Boot’s testing tools in this beginner-friendly guide

Testing is a critical part of modern software development, ensuring that your application works as expected while minimizing bugs. In Spring Boot, testing is both powerful and straightforward, thanks to robust support for unit and integration testing. Whether you’re verifying business logic with unit tests or ensuring the interplay of components with integration tests, understanding the fundamentals is essential for building reliable applications.

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Testing AWS locally with LocalStack

Learn how to test SQS locally with LocalStack — cut costs, isolate tests, and speed up your development process

In today’s fast-paced development environment, testing is a crucial component that ensures the robustness and reliability of your applications. However, testing AWS services like SQS (Simple Queue Service) can be costly and cumbersome if done directly against live AWS environments. Enter LocalStack — a powerful tool that allows you to emulate AWS services locally, providing a cost-effective and isolated environment for testing.

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Testing Spring Boot Applications: Unit, Integration, and Mocking — A Comprehensive Guide

Testing is a critical aspect of software development, ensuring the reliability and stability of your applications. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the essentials of testing Spring Boot applications using JUnit and Mockito. We’ll cover unit tests, integration tests, and mocking, providing examples using MockServer and Testcontainers.

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Testing the Integration Layer of Your Spring Boot Application with Testcontainers and MockServer

In modern microservices architectures, robust and reliable integration testing is crucial to ensure seamless communication between services. Integration tests verify that different parts of the application work together as expected. This blog post will dive into how to effectively test the integration layer of your Spring Boot application using Testcontainers and MockServer, two powerful tools that simplify and enhance the testing process.

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