Testing Web Apps with Spring Framework

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Shows how to test Spring MVC controllers with concrete code: pure unit tests using mocks that run in milliseconds, controller-scoped integration tests with MockMvc scaffolding that serialize real domain objects to JSON and assert status, headers and JSON properties, and full Spring-context tests that run with a real (HSQL) DB loaded by @Sql scripts and take about a second to start (single setup) then seconds per suite. Uses Spring MVC Test framework (Spring 3.2+/4.x), request builders, JSON path assertions and exception verification.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:16Unit tests for controllers
3. 8:40Spring MVC Test Framework
4. 11:56Isolated integration tests
5. 21:57Integration tests with context
6. 30:15Extensions and resources
7. 32:52Q&A

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