Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React - Second Edition

Testing in Spring Boot

The Spring Boot test starter package is added to pom.xml by Spring Initializr when we create our project. This is added automatically without any selection in the Spring Initializr page:

    <dependency>      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>      <scope>test</scope>    </dependency>

The Spring Boot test starter provides lots of handy libraries for testing, such as JUnit, Mockito, and AssertJ. If you take a look, your project structure already has its own package created for test classes:

By default, Spring Boot uses an in-memory database for testing. We are now using MariaDB, ...