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Testing Spring Boot Context Loading in spring-boot-examples Web Application

This test suite validates the Spring Boot application context initialization and basic web functionality. It ensures proper application startup and context loading using the SpringRunner test framework, demonstrating essential Spring Boot testing practices.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on verifying successful application context loading in a Spring Boot web application.

Key areas tested include:

Spring application context initialization
Basic configuration loading
Component scanning verification
Application bootstrap process

Implementation Analysis

The testing approach utilizes Spring Boot’s testing framework with JUnit 4 integration. The implementation leverages @SpringBootTest annotation for full application context loading and @RunWith(SpringRunner.class) for Spring test execution.

Key patterns include:

Spring Test Context framework integration
Automated context configuration
JUnit test lifecycle management

Technical Details

Testing tools and configuration:

JUnit 4 testing framework
SpringRunner test executor
SpringBootTest annotation for context configuration
Spring Boot Test auto-configuration
System.out verification for basic output

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test implementation showcases essential Spring Boot testing practices, including proper test class organization and Spring context management.

Notable practices include:

Clear test method naming
Appropriate test annotations usage
Context configuration separation
Minimal test setup requirements

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

1.x/spring-boot-web/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.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

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

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

}