Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

Testing frameworks – JUnit, Gatling, and Cucumber

Server-side testing can be mainly categorized into unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, and behavior testing. JHipster supports all of these with JUnit, Gatling, and Cucumber, out of which JUnit comes out of the box, while the others are opt-in.

JUnit (https://junit.org/junit5/) is the most widely used Java testing framework. It is free and open source software. It was originally intended for unit testing but combined with Spring Test Framework (https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/testing.html#testing-introduction), it can also be used for integration testing. JHipster creates unit tests and REST API integration tests using JUnit and Spring ...