Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Chapter 12. Testing Your Application

For a web application developer, testing web applications is always a challenging task because getting a real-time test environment for web applications requires a lot of effort. But thanks to the Spring MVC Test framework, it simplifies the testing of Spring MVC applications.

But why do we need to consider putting effort into testing our application? Writing good test cases for our application is a kind of like buying an insurance policy for your application, although it does not add any functional values to your application, it will definitely save you time and effort by detecting functionality failures early. Consider your application growing bigger and bigger in terms of functionality—you need some mechanism ...