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Validating Spring Boot Context Loading in spring-boot-examples MyBatis XML Configuration

This test suite validates the Spring Boot application context loading and basic configuration setup in a MyBatis XML-based project. It ensures the core application components initialize correctly and the Spring context loads properly within the test environment.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on validating the fundamental Spring Boot application bootstrap process with MyBatis XML configuration.

Verifies successful Spring context loading
Tests basic application initialization
Validates Spring-MyBatis integration setup
Ensures proper test environment configuration

Implementation Analysis

The implementation utilizes Spring Boot’s test framework with JUnit integration. The test class leverages @SpringBootTest annotation for full application context loading and @RunWith(SpringRunner.class) to enable Spring TestContext Framework support.

The testing approach follows Spring Boot’s convention for integration testing, ensuring all application components are properly initialized and wired together.

Technical Details

JUnit 4 testing framework
Spring Boot Test context
SpringRunner test executor
MyBatis XML configuration support
System.out verification for basic output

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test implementation showcases several Spring Boot testing best practices.

Proper test class annotation structure
Clean separation of test configuration
Use of Spring’s test context framework
Integration test isolation
Minimal test setup complexity

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

1.x/spring-boot-mybatis-xml/src/test/java/com/neo/ApplicationTests.java

            
package com.neo;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class ApplicationTests {

	@Test
	public void contextLoads() {
		System.out.println("hello world");
	}

}