Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Reactive in Spring Test

The integral part of any system development process is testing. Therefore, the Spring ecosystem offers the improved Spring Test and Spring Boot Test modules, which expand a list of additional functionalities for testing reactive Spring applications. In this way, Spring Test provides a WebTestClient for testing WebFlux-based web applications, and Spring Boot Test takes care of autoconfiguration for test suites using ordinary annotations.

In turn, to test Reactive Streams' Publisher, Project Reactor offers the Reactor-Test module, which—in combination with the Spring Test and Spring Boot Test modules—makes it possible to write complete verification suites for business logic implemented using Reactive Spring. All the ...