Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Writing acceptance tests

Unit tests can only cover a subset of the different interactions between the components of our application. To go a little further, we will need to set up acceptance tests, tests that will actually boot up the complete application and allow us to interact with its interface.

The Gradle configuration

The first thing we will want to do when we add integration tests to a project is to put them in a different location to that of the unit tests.

The reason for this is, essentially, that acceptance tests are slower than unit tests. They can be part of a different integration job, such as a nightly build, and we want developers to be able to launch the different kinds of tests easily from their IDE. To do this with Gradle, we will ...