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Testing Spring Boot Context Loading in spring-boot-examples WAR Package

This test suite validates the core Spring Boot application context initialization and configuration loading. It ensures the application can properly bootstrap and load all required dependencies and configurations within a WAR package deployment context.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on verifying successful Spring application context loading and dependency injection.

Tests application bootstrap process
Validates WAR packaging configuration
Ensures Spring component scanning
Verifies dependency injection setup

Implementation Analysis

The implementation utilizes Spring’s test framework with JUnit 4 integration through SpringJUnit4ClassRunner. The @SpringApplicationConfiguration annotation configures the test environment to match the production application context.

Uses SpringJUnit4ClassRunner for test execution
Leverages Spring Boot test configurations
Implements context loading verification

Technical Details

JUnit 4 testing framework
Spring Test context framework
SpringJUnit4ClassRunner test executor
Spring Boot test configuration annotations
WAR packaging environment setup

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test implementation follows Spring Boot testing best practices by properly isolating the application context testing.

Clean separation of test configuration
Proper use of Spring Boot test annotations
Focused test scope for context loading
Efficient test execution setup

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

2.x/spring-boot-package-war/src/test/java/com/neo/ApplicationTests.java

            
package com.neo;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
public class ApplicationTests {

	@Test
	public void contextLoads() {
	}

}