Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Mocks and stubs

If we wanted to test the search request handled by the SearchController class, we would certainly want to mock SearchService.

There are two ways of doing this: with a mock or with a stub.

Mocking with Mockito

First, we can create a mock object with Mockito:

package masterSpringMvc.search; import masterSpringMvc.MasterSpringMvcApplication; import org.junit.Before; import org.junit.Test; import org.junit.runner.RunWith; import org.mockito.InjectMocks; import org.mockito.Mock; import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations; import org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration; import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner; import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration; import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc; ...