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Validating Spring Boot Web Context Loading in spring-boot-examples

This test suite validates the core Spring Boot web application context initialization and startup functionality. It ensures proper loading of the application context and verifies basic web application bootstrapping in a Spring Boot environment.

Test Coverage Overview

The test coverage focuses on validating the Spring Boot application context initialization.

Key areas covered include:

Application context loading verification
Spring Boot web environment bootstrapping
Basic runtime configuration validation

Integration points tested encompass Spring Boot’s auto-configuration and web application context setup.

Implementation Analysis

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

The implementation demonstrates Spring Boot’s testing patterns including automated context configuration and test environment setup.

Technical Details

Testing tools and configuration include:

JUnit 4 testing framework
Spring Boot Test module
SpringRunner test executor
SpringBootTest configuration annotation
Standard context loading verification

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test suite exemplifies several testing best practices:

Proper test class organization with clear annotations
Effective use of Spring Boot test infrastructure
Clean separation of test configuration
Minimal test context setup requirements

ityouknow/spring-boot-examples

spring-boot-web/src/test/java/com/neo/WebApplicationTests.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 WebApplicationTests {

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

}