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Validating Spring Context Loading in spring-boot-examples

This test suite validates the Spring Boot application context initialization and basic configuration setup. It ensures the core application components load correctly and the Spring context starts properly within the spring-boot-examples project.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on verifying successful Spring context loading and basic application bootstrapping. Key functionality includes:

Spring application context initialization
Component scanning validation
Basic configuration loading
Application startup verification

Implementation Analysis

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

The test demonstrates the use of Spring’s testing patterns with explicit configuration validation.

Technical Details

Testing tools and configuration include:

JUnit 4 testing framework
Spring Test Context framework
SpringRunner test executor
SpringBootTest configuration
Automated context loading verification

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test suite exemplifies several testing best practices:

Proper test class organization with Spring Boot annotations
Clean separation of test configuration
Effective use of Spring’s testing infrastructure
Minimal test setup requirements
Clear test method naming conventions

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

2.x/spring-boot-helloWorld/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 word");
	}

}