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Testing Spring Boot Context Loading in spring-boot-examples

This test suite provides basic Spring Boot application context validation using JUnit. It verifies the successful loading of the Spring application context and demonstrates a simple system output test. The suite establishes fundamental test infrastructure for a Spring Boot scheduler application.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on the essential Spring Boot context loading verification.

Key areas covered include:

Application context initialization
Basic Spring Boot configuration validation
System output verification

Integration points primarily focus on Spring Runner and Spring Boot Test infrastructure.

Implementation Analysis

The testing approach utilizes Spring’s test framework integration with JUnit 4. The implementation employs the SpringRunner class for test execution and leverages the @SpringBootTest annotation for comprehensive context configuration.

Key patterns include:

Spring Test Context framework integration
JUnit 4 test execution model
Spring Boot test auto-configuration

Technical Details

Testing tools and configuration:

JUnit 4 testing framework
SpringRunner test executor
Spring Boot Test context support
System.out print statement for verification
@SpringBootTest annotation for context loading

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test implementation showcases fundamental Spring Boot testing practices.

Notable practices include:

Proper test class annotation structure
Clean separation of test configuration
Use of Spring’s test context framework
Basic context loading verification

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

1.x/spring-boot-scheduler/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");
	}

}