依存性注入を使用すると、従来のJava EE開発の場合よりもコードのコンテナへの依存度が低くなります。 アプリケーションを構成するPOJOは、JUnitテストまたはTestNGテストでテスト可能である必要があります。オブジェクトはSpringまたは他のコンテナなしで、new
演算子を使用して簡単にインスタンス化されます。 モックオブジェクトを(他の貴重なテスト手法と組み合わせて)使用して、コードを単独でテストすることができます。 Springのアーキテクチャーの推奨事項に従うと、コードベースのクリーンな階層化とコンポーネント化によって、単体テストが容易になります。 たとえば、単体テストの実行中に永続データにアクセスする必要なしに、DAOまたはRepositoryインタフェースをスタブまたはモックすることによってサービスレイヤオブジェクトをテストできます。
セットアップするランタイムインフラストラクチャがないため、実際のユニットテストは通常非常に短時間で実行されます。 開発方法論の一部として真の単体テストを強調すると、生産性が向上します。 IoCベースのアプリケーション用の効果的な単体テストを書くために、テストの章のこのセクションは必要ないかもしれません。 ただし、特定の単体テストのシナリオでは、Spring Frameworkは次のモックオブジェクトとテストサポートクラスを提供します。
org.springframework.mock.env
パッケージは Environment
と PropertySource
抽象化のモック実装を含みます ([beans-definition-profiles]および[beans-property-source-abstraction]を参照)。 MockEnvironment
と MockPropertySource
は、環境固有のプロパティに依存するコードのための out-of-container テストを開発するのに役立ちます。
org.springframework.mock.jndi
パッケージにはJNDI SPIの実装が含まれており、これを使ってテストスイートやスタンドアロンアプリケーション用の簡単なJNDI環境を設定することができます。 たとえば、JDBCのDataSource
がテストコード内でJava EEコンテナ内と同じJNDI名にバインドされている場合は、テストシナリオでアプリケーションコードと設定の両方を変更せずに再利用できます。
org.springframework.mock.web
パッケージはWebコンテキスト、コントローラー、そしてフィルターをテストするのに役立つ包括的なServlet APIモックオブジェクトのセットを含みます。 これらのモックオブジェクトは、SpringのWeb MVCフレームワークでの使用を目的としており、一般的に EasyMock などの動的モックオブジェクトや MockObjects などの代替Servlet APIモックオブジェクトよりも使いやすいです。 Spring Framework 4.0以降、 org.springframework.mock.web
パッケージの一連のモックはServlet 3.0 APIに基づいています。
Spring MVC用の WebApplicationContext
設定と組み合わせたSpring MVCとRESTの Controller
の完全な統合テストについては、Spring MVC テストフレームワークをご覧ください。
org.springframework.test.util
パッケージは単体テストと統合テストで使用するためのいくつかの汎用ユーティリティを含みます。
ReflectionTestUtils
はリフレクションベースのユーティリティメソッドのコレクションです。 開発者は、定数の値を変更する、 public
以外のフィールドを設定する、 public
以外のsetterメソッドを呼び出す、または public
以外の configuration または lifecycle のコールバックメソッドを呼び出す必要があるテストシナリオで、ユースケースを含むアプリケーションコードをテストするとき、これらのメソッドを使用します。
-
JPAやHibernateのようなORMフレームワークはドメインエンティティのプロパティのための
public
セッターメソッドとは対照的にprivate
またはprotected
フィールドアクセスを容認します。 -
Springの
@Autowired
、@Inject
、@Resource
のようなアノテーションのサポート、これはprivate
やprotected
フィールド、セッターメソッド、設定メソッドへの依存性注入を提供します。 -
ライフサイクルコールバックメソッドのための
@PostConstruct
や@PreDestroy
のようなアノテーションの使用。
AopTestUtils
はAOP関連のユーティリティメソッドのコレクションです。これらのメソッドは、1つ以上のSpringプロキシの背後に隠されている基礎となるターゲットオブジェクトへの参照を取得するために使用できます。たとえば、EasyMockやMockitoなどのライブラリを使用してBeanを動的モックとして構成し、そのモックをSpringプロキシでラップしている場合、予想値を構成して検証を実行するには、基礎となるモックに直接アクセスする必要があります。 SpringのコアAOPユーティリティについては、 AopUtils
と AopProxyUtils
を参照してください。
org.springframework.test.web
パッケージは ModelAndViewAssert
を含んでいます。これはJUnit、TestNG、またはSpring MVCの ModelAndView
オブジェクトを扱う単体テストのための他のテストフレームワークと組み合わせて使用することができます。
Tip
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Spring MVCコントローラの単体テスト
Spring MVCの |
アプリケーションサーバーへの展開や他のエンタープライズインフラストラクチャへの接続を必要とせずに、何らかの統合テストを実行できることが重要です。
これにより、次のようなことをテストできます。
-
あなたのSpring IoCコンテナコンテキストの正しい配線。
-
JDBCまたはORMツールを使用したデータアクセス これには、SQL文の正確性、Hibernateクエリ、JPAエンティティマッピングなどが含まれます。
Spring Frameworkは spring-test
モジュールで統合テストに対する一流のサポートを提供します。 実際のJARファイルの名前にはリリースバージョンが含まれているかもしれず、またどこから来たのかによっては長い org.springframework.test
形式になっているかもしれません。(説明については、依存関係管理のセクションを参照してください。) このライブラリには org.springframework.test
パッケージが含まれています。このパッケージにはSpringコンテナとの統合テストに役立つクラスが含まれています。 このテストは、アプリケーションサーバーや他の配備環境には依存しません。 このようなテストは、単体テストより実行が遅くなりますが、同等のSeleniumテストやアプリケーションサーバーへの展開に依存するリモートテストよりもはるかに高速です。
Spring 2.5以降では、単体テストと統合テストのサポートは、アノテーション駆動型のSpring TestContext Frameworkの形で提供されています。 TestContextフレームワークは実際に使用されているテストフレームワークとは無関係であるため、JUnit、TestNGなどを含むさまざまな環境でテストを計測することができます。
Springの統合テストサポートには、次のような主な目標があります:
-
テスト実行間のSpring IoCコンテナキャッシングを管理します。
-
テストフィクスチャインスタンスの依存性注入を提供します。
-
統合テストに適したトランザクション管理を提供します。
-
開発者が統合テストを書く際に役立つSpring固有の基本クラスを提供します。
次のいくつかのセクションでは、それぞれの目標について説明し、実装と構成の詳細へのリンクを示します。
Spring TestContextフレームワークはSpringの ApplicationContext
と WebApplicationContext
の一貫したロードとそれらのコンテキストのキャッシングを提供します。 起動時間が問題になる可能性があるため、ロードされたコンテキストのキャッシュのサポートは重要です。Spring自体のオーバーヘッドが原因ではなく、Springコンテナによってインスタンス化されたオブジェクトはインスタンス化に時間がかかるためです。 たとえば、50〜100のHibernateマッピングファイルを含むプロジェクトでは、マッピングファイルをロードするのに10〜20秒かかり、すべてのテストフィクスチャですべてのテストを実行する前にそのコストがかかると、全体的なテスト実行が遅くなり、開発者の生産性が低下します。
テストクラスは通常、XMLまたはGroovy構成メタデータ用のリソースの場所の配列(多くの場合クラスパス内)、またはアプリケーションの構成に使用される注釈付きクラスの配列のいずれかを宣言します。 これらの場所やクラスは web.xml
や他の実運用環境用の設定ファイルで指定されているものと同じか似ています。
デフォルトでは、一旦ロードされると、設定された `ApplicationContext`は各テストに再利用されます。 したがって、セットアップコストはテストスイートごとに一度だけ発生し、その後のテスト実行ははるかに高速です。 この文脈では、テストスイートという用語は、すべてのテストが同じJVMで実行されることを意味します。たとえば、すべてのテストは、特定のプロジェクトまたはモジュールのAnt、Maven、またはGradleビルドから実行されます。 めったにありませんが、テストによってアプリケーションコンテキストが破損し、再読み込みが必要になる場合 - たとえば、Bean定義やアプリケーションオブジェクトの状態を変更することによって - 次のテストを実行する前に、設定を再ロードしてアプリケーションコンテキストを再構築するようにTestContextフレームワークを設定できます。
TestContextフレームワークについては コンテキストマネジメント および コンテキストキャッシング を参照してください。
TestContextフレームワークがアプリケーションコンテキストをロードするとき、Dependency Injectionを介してテストクラスのインスタンスをオプションで設定できます。 これは、アプリケーションコンテキストから事前設定されたBeanを使用してテストフィクスチャを設定するための便利なメカニズムを提供します。 ここでの大きな利点は、さまざまなテストシナリオでアプリケーションコンテキストを再利用できることです。(例えば、Spring管理のオブジェクトグラフ、トランザクションプロキシ、 DataSource
などを設定するため) したがって、個々のテストケースに対して複雑なテストフィクスチャの設定を複製する必要がありません。
例として、 Title
ドメインエンティティのデータアクセスロジックを実装するクラス HibernateTitleRepository
があるシナリオを考えてください。 以下の分野をテストする統合テストを書きたい:
-
Springの設定: 基本的に、
HibernateTitleRepository
Beanの設定に関連するものはすべて正しいのですか? -
Hibernateマッピングファイルの設定: すべてが正しくマッピングされ、正しいレイジーロード設定が整っていますか?
-
`HibernateTitleRepository`のロジック: このクラスの設定されたインスタンスは期待通りに動作しますか?
[testcontext-fixture-di、TestContextフレームワーク]によるテストフィクスチャの依存性注入を参照してください。
実際のデータベースにアクセスするテストでよく見られる問題の1つは、持続ストアの状態への影響です。 開発用データベースを使用している場合でも、状態の変更は将来のテストに影響を与える可能性があります。 また、多くの操作は — 永続データの挿入や修正など — トランザクションの外で実行(または検証)することはできません。
TestContextフレームワークはこの問題を解決します。 デフォルトでは、フレームワークはテストごとにトランザクションを作成してロールバックします。 トランザクションの存在を想定できるコードを書くだけです。 テストでトランザクション的にプロキシ化されたオブジェクトを呼び出す場合、それらは設定されたトランザクション的なセマンティクスに従って正しく動作します。 さらに、テスト用に管理されているトランザクション内で実行中にテストメソッドが選択されたテーブルの内容を削除すると、トランザクションはデフォルトでロールバックします。 データベースはテストの実行前の状態に戻ります。 トランザクションのサポートはテストのアプリケーションコンテキストで定義された PlatformTransactionManager
Beanを通してテストに提供されます。
トランザクションをコミットしたい場合 — 珍しいですが、特定のテストでデータベースにデータを追加したり変更したりする場合に便利です — TestContextフレームワークは @ Commit
アノテーションを使ってロールバックする代わりにトランザクションをコミットするように指示することができます。
TestContextフレームワークによるトランザクション管理を参照してください。
Spring TestContext Frameworkは統合テストの作成を簡単にするいくつかの 抽象
サポートクラスを提供します。 これらの基本テストクラスは、テストフレームワークへの明確に定義されたフック、および便利なインスタンス変数とメソッドを提供します。
-
明示的なBean検索を実行したり、コンテキスト全体の状態をテストしたりするための
ApplicationContext
。 -
データベースに問い合わせるためのSQLステートメントを実行するための
JdbcTemplate
。 このようなクエリは、データベース関連のアプリケーションコードの 実行前 と 実行後 の両方でデータベースの状態を確認するために使用でき、Springはそのようなクエリがアプリケーションコードと同じトランザクションの範囲内で実行されるようにします。 ORMツールと組み合わせて使用する場合は、誤検知を避けてください。
さらに、プロジェクト固有のインスタンス変数とメソッドを使用して、独自のアプリケーション全体のスーパークラスを作成することもできます。
TestContextフレームワークのサポートクラスを参照してください。
org.springframework.test.jdbc
パッケージは JdbcTestUtils
を含みます。これは標準的なデータベーステストシナリオを単純化することを意図したJDBC関連のユーティリティ関数のコレクションです。 具体的には、 JdbcTestUtils
は以下の静的ユーティリティメソッドを提供します。
-
countRowsInTable(..)
: 与えられたテーブルの行数を数える -
countRowsInTableWhere(..)
: 与えられたWHERE
句を使って、与えられたテーブルの行数を数えます。 -
deleteFromTables(..)
: 指定されたテーブルからすべての行を削除します -
deleteFromTableWhere(..)
: 与えられたWHERE
句を使って、与えられたテーブルから行を削除します -
dropTables(..)
: 指定されたテーブルを削除します
Note これはAbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
と ` AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests` から提供される便利なメソッドで、前述の JdbcTestUtils
のメソッドに委譲しています。
`spring-jdbc`モジュールはデータベースとやりとりする統合テストで使用できる組み込みデータベースの設定と起動のサポートを提供します。 詳細については、[jdbc-embedded-database-support]および[jdbc-embedded-database-dao-testing]を参照してください。
Spring Frameworkは、TestContextフレームワークと組み合わせて、単体テストおよび統合テストで使用できる以下のSpring固有のアノテーションのセットを提供します。 デフォルトの属性値、属性の別名などの詳細については、対応するjavadocを参照してください。
@ BootstrapWith
は Spring TestContext Framework がどのようにブートストラップされるかを設定するために使用されるクラスレベルのアノテーションです。 具体的には、 @BootstrapWith
を使ってカスタムの TestContextBootstrapper
を指定します。 詳細については、TestContextフレームワークのブートストラップ セクションを参照してください。
@ContextConfiguration
は統合テストのために ApplicationContext
をロードして設定する方法を決定するために使われるクラスレベルのメタデータを定義します。 具体的には、 @ContextConfiguration
は、コンテキストをロードするために使用されるアプリケーションコンテキストリソースの locations
または注釈付きの classes
を宣言します。
リソースの場所は通常、クラスパスにあるXML設定ファイルまたはGroovyスクリプトです。 一方、注釈付きクラスは通常 @Configuration
クラスです。 ただし、リソースの場所はファイルシステム内のファイルやスクリプトを参照することもでき、注釈付きクラスはコンポーネントクラスなどになることもできます。
@ContextConfiguration("/test-config.xml")
public class XmlApplicationContextTests {
// class body...
}
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestConfig.class)
public class ConfigClassApplicationContextTests {
// class body...
}
リソースの場所や注釈付きのクラスを宣言する代わりに、またはそれに加えて、 @ContextConfiguration
を使って ApplicationContextInitializer
クラスを宣言することもできます。
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = CustomContextIntializer.class)
public class ContextInitializerTests {
// class body...
}
@ContextConfiguration
はオプションで ContextLoader
戦略を宣言するために使用されるかもしれません。 ただし、デフォルトのローダーはリソースの「位置」または注釈付きの「クラス」と「初期化子」のどちらもサポートしているので、通常は明示的にローダーを設定する必要はありません。
@ContextConfiguration(locations = "/test-context.xml", loader = CustomContextLoader.class)
public class CustomLoaderXmlApplicationContextTests {
// class body...
}
Note
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`@ ContextConfiguration`は、デフォルトでスーパークラスによって宣言されたコンテキスト初期化子と同様に、リソースの場所や設定クラスを継承するためのサポートを提供します。 |
さらなる詳細についてはコンテキストマネジメントと @ContextConfiguration
javadocを見てください。
@WebAppConfiguration
は統合テストのためにロードされた ApplicationContext
が WebApplicationContext
であるべきだと宣言するために使われるクラスレベルのアノテーションです。 テストクラスに @WebAppConfiguration
があるだけで、テストのために WebApplicationContext
がロードされます。ウェブアプリケーションのルートへのパスにはデフォルト値の "file:src/main/webapp"
を使います。 (つまり、 リソースベースパス). リソースベースパスは、テストの WebApplicationContext
の ServletContext
として機能する MockServletContext
を作成するために舞台裏で使用されます。
@ContextConfiguration
@WebAppConfiguration
public class WebAppTests {
// class body...
}
デフォルトを上書きするには、暗黙の value
属性で別のベースリソースパスを指定してください。 classpath:
と file:
の両方のリソースプレフィックスがサポートされています。 リソース接頭辞が指定されていない場合、パスはファイルシステムリソースであると見なされます。
@ContextConfiguration
@WebAppConfiguration("classpath:test-web-resources")
public class WebAppTests {
// class body...
}
@ WebAppConfiguration
は単一のテストクラス内またはテストクラス階層内のいずれかで、@ContextConfiguration
と組み合わせて使用する必要があります。 詳しくは @WebAppConfiguration
javadocを見てください。
@ContextHierarchy
is a class-level annotation that is used to define a hierarchy of
ApplicationContext
s for integration tests. @ContextHierarchy
should be declared
with a list of one or more @ContextConfiguration
instances, each of which defines a
level in the context hierarchy. The following examples demonstrate the use of
@ContextHierarchy
within a single test class; however, @ContextHierarchy
can also be
used within a test class hierarchy.
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration("/parent-config.xml"),
@ContextConfiguration("/child-config.xml")
})
public class ContextHierarchyTests {
// class body...
}
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration(classes = AppConfig.class),
@ContextConfiguration(classes = WebConfig.class)
})
public class WebIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
If you need to merge or override the configuration for a given level of the context
hierarchy within a test class hierarchy, you must explicitly name that level by
supplying the same value to the name
attribute in @ContextConfiguration
at each
corresponding level in the class hierarchy. See
コンテキスト階層 and the @ContextHierarchy
javadocs
for further examples.
@ActiveProfiles
is a class-level annotation that is used to declare which bean
definition profiles should be active when loading an ApplicationContext
for an
integration test.
@ContextConfiguration
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
public class DeveloperTests {
// class body...
}
@ContextConfiguration
@ActiveProfiles({"dev", "integration"})
public class DeveloperIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
Note
|
|
See 環境プロファイルを使ったコンテキスト設定 and the @ActiveProfiles
javadocs
for examples and further details.
@TestPropertySource
is a class-level annotation that is used to configure the locations
of properties files and inlined properties to be added to the set of PropertySources
in
the Environment
for an ApplicationContext
loaded for an integration test.
Test property sources have higher precedence than those loaded from the operating
system’s environment or Java system properties as well as property sources added by the
application declaratively via @PropertySource
or programmatically. Thus, test property
sources can be used to selectively override properties defined in system and application
property sources. Furthermore, inlined properties have higher precedence than properties
loaded from resource locations.
The following example demonstrates how to declare a properties file from the classpath.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestPropertySource("/test.properties")
public class MyIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
The following example demonstrates how to declare inlined properties.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestPropertySource(properties = { "timezone = GMT", "port: 4242" })
public class MyIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
@DirtiesContext
indicates that the underlying Spring ApplicationContext
has been
dirtied during the execution of a test (i.e., modified or corrupted in some manner — for example, by changing the state of a singleton bean) and should be closed. When an
application context is marked dirty, it is removed from the testing framework’s cache
and closed. As a consequence, the underlying Spring container will be rebuilt for any
subsequent test that requires a context with the same configuration metadata.
@DirtiesContext
can be used as both a class-level and method-level annotation within
the same class or class hierarchy. In such scenarios, the ApplicationContext
is marked
as dirty before or after any such annotated method as well as before or after the
current test class, depending on the configured methodMode
and classMode
.
The following examples explain when the context would be dirtied for various configuration scenarios:
-
Before the current test class, when declared on a class with class mode set to
BEFORE_CLASS
.@DirtiesContext(classMode = BEFORE_CLASS) public class FreshContextTests { // some tests that require a new Spring container }
-
After the current test class, when declared on a class with class mode set to
AFTER_CLASS
(i.e., the default class mode).@DirtiesContext public class ContextDirtyingTests { // some tests that result in the Spring container being dirtied }
-
Before each test method in the current test class, when declared on a class with class mode set to
BEFORE_EACH_TEST_METHOD.
@DirtiesContext(classMode = BEFORE_EACH_TEST_METHOD) public class FreshContextTests { // some tests that require a new Spring container }
-
After each test method in the current test class, when declared on a class with class mode set to
AFTER_EACH_TEST_METHOD.
@DirtiesContext(classMode = AFTER_EACH_TEST_METHOD) public class ContextDirtyingTests { // some tests that result in the Spring container being dirtied }
-
Before the current test, when declared on a method with the method mode set to
BEFORE_METHOD
.@DirtiesContext(methodMode = BEFORE_METHOD) @Test public void testProcessWhichRequiresFreshAppCtx() { // some logic that requires a new Spring container }
-
After the current test, when declared on a method with the method mode set to
AFTER_METHOD
(i.e., the default method mode).@DirtiesContext @Test public void testProcessWhichDirtiesAppCtx() { // some logic that results in the Spring container being dirtied }
If @DirtiesContext
is used in a test whose context is configured as part of a context
hierarchy via @ContextHierarchy
, the hierarchyMode
flag can be used to control how
the context cache is cleared. By default an exhaustive algorithm will be used that
clears the context cache including not only the current level but also all other context
hierarchies that share an ancestor context common to the current test; all
ApplicationContext
s that reside in a sub-hierarchy of the common ancestor context
will be removed from the context cache and closed. If the exhaustive algorithm is
overkill for a particular use case, the simpler current level algorithm can be
specified instead, as seen below.
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration("/parent-config.xml"),
@ContextConfiguration("/child-config.xml")
})
public class BaseTests {
// class body...
}
public class ExtendedTests extends BaseTests {
@Test
@DirtiesContext(hierarchyMode = CURRENT_LEVEL)
public void test() {
// some logic that results in the child context being dirtied
}
}
For further details regarding the EXHAUSTIVE
and CURRENT_LEVEL
algorithms see the
DirtiesContext.HierarchyMode
javadocs.
@TestExecutionListeners
defines class-level metadata for configuring the
TestExecutionListener
implementations that should be registered with the
TestContextManager
. Typically, @TestExecutionListeners
is used in conjunction with
@ContextConfiguration
.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestExecutionListeners({CustomTestExecutionListener.class, AnotherTestExecutionListener.class})
public class CustomTestExecutionListenerTests {
// class body...
}
@TestExecutionListeners
supports inherited listeners by default. See the javadocs
for an example and further details.
@Commit
indicates that the transaction for a transactional test method should be
committed after the test method has completed. @Commit
can be used as a direct
replacement for @Rollback(false)
in order to more explicitly convey the intent of the
code. Analogous to @Rollback
, @Commit
may also be declared as a class-level or
method-level annotation.
@Commit
@Test
public void testProcessWithoutRollback() {
// ...
}
@Rollback
indicates whether the transaction for a transactional test method should be
rolled back after the test method has completed. If true
, the transaction is rolled
back; otherwise, the transaction is committed (see also @Commit
). Rollback semantics
for integration tests in the Spring TestContext Framework default to true
even if
@Rollback
is not explicitly declared.
When declared as a class-level annotation, @Rollback
defines the default rollback
semantics for all test methods within the test class hierarchy. When declared as a
method-level annotation, @Rollback
defines rollback semantics for the specific test
method, potentially overriding class-level @Rollback
or @Commit
semantics.
@Rollback(false)
@Test
public void testProcessWithoutRollback() {
// ...
}
@BeforeTransaction
indicates that the annotated void
method should be executed
before a transaction is started for test methods configured to run within a
transaction via Spring’s @Transactional
annotation. As of Spring Framework 4.3,
@BeforeTransaction
methods are not required to be public
and may be declared on Java
8 based interface default methods.
@BeforeTransaction
void beforeTransaction() {
// logic to be executed before a transaction is started
}
@AfterTransaction
indicates that the annotated void
method should be executed
after a transaction is ended for test methods configured to run within a transaction
via Spring’s @Transactional
annotation. As of Spring Framework 4.3, @AfterTransaction
methods are not required to be public
and may be declared on Java 8 based interface
default methods.
@AfterTransaction
void afterTransaction() {
// logic to be executed after a transaction has ended
}
@Sql
is used to annotate a test class or test method to configure SQL scripts to be
executed against a given database during integration tests.
@Test
@Sql({"/test-schema.sql", "/test-user-data.sql"})
public void userTest {
// execute code that relies on the test schema and test data
}
See @Sqlを使用してSQLスクリプトを宣言的に実行する for further details.
@SqlConfig
defines metadata that is used to determine how to parse and execute SQL
scripts configured via the @Sql
annotation.
@Test
@Sql(
scripts = "/test-user-data.sql",
config = @SqlConfig(commentPrefix = "`", separator = "@@")
)
public void userTest {
// execute code that relies on the test data
}
@SqlGroup
is a container annotation that aggregates several @Sql
annotations.
@SqlGroup
can be used natively, declaring several nested @Sql
annotations, or it can
be used in conjunction with Java 8’s support for repeatable annotations, where @Sql
can
simply be declared several times on the same class or method, implicitly generating this
container annotation.
@Test
@SqlGroup({
@Sql(scripts = "/test-schema.sql", config = @SqlConfig(commentPrefix = "`")),
@Sql("/test-user-data.sql")
)}
public void userTest {
// execute code that uses the test schema and test data
}
The following annotations are supported with standard semantics for all configurations of the Spring TestContext Framework. Note that these annotations are not specific to tests and can be used anywhere in the Spring Framework.
-
@Autowired
-
@Qualifier
-
@Resource
(javax.annotation) if JSR-250 is present -
@ManagedBean
(javax.annotation) if JSR-250 is present -
@Inject
(javax.inject) if JSR-330 is present -
@Named
(javax.inject) if JSR-330 is present -
@PersistenceContext
(javax.persistence) if JPA is present -
@PersistenceUnit
(javax.persistence) if JPA is present -
@Required
-
@Transactional
Note
|
JSR-250 Lifecycle Annotations
In the Spring TestContext Framework If a method within a test class is annotated with |
The following annotations are only supported when used in conjunction with the SpringRunner, Spring’s JUnit rules, or Spring’s JUnit 4 support classes.
@IfProfileValue
indicates that the annotated test is enabled for a specific testing
environment. If the configured ProfileValueSource
returns a matching value
for the
provided name
, the test is enabled. Otherwise, the test will be disabled and
effectively ignored.
@IfProfileValue
can be applied at the class level, the method level, or both.
Class-level usage of @IfProfileValue
takes precedence over method-level usage for any
methods within that class or its subclasses. Specifically, a test is enabled if it is
enabled both at the class level and at the method level; the absence of
@IfProfileValue
means the test is implicitly enabled. This is analogous to the
semantics of JUnit 4’s @Ignore
annotation, except that the presence of @Ignore
always
disables a test.
@IfProfileValue(name="java.vendor", value="Oracle Corporation")
@Test
public void testProcessWhichRunsOnlyOnOracleJvm() {
// some logic that should run only on Java VMs from Oracle Corporation
}
Alternatively, you can configure @IfProfileValue
with a list of values
(with OR
semantics) to achieve TestNG-like support for test groups in a JUnit 4 environment.
Consider the following example:
@IfProfileValue(name="test-groups", values={"unit-tests", "integration-tests"})
@Test
public void testProcessWhichRunsForUnitOrIntegrationTestGroups() {
// some logic that should run only for unit and integration test groups
}
@ProfileValueSourceConfiguration
is a class-level annotation that specifies what type
of ProfileValueSource
to use when retrieving profile values configured through the
@IfProfileValue
annotation. If @ProfileValueSourceConfiguration
is not declared for a
test, SystemProfileValueSource
is used by default.
@ProfileValueSourceConfiguration(CustomProfileValueSource.class)
public class CustomProfileValueSourceTests {
// class body...
}
@Timed
indicates that the annotated test method must finish execution in a specified
time period (in milliseconds). If the text execution time exceeds the specified time
period, the test fails.
The time period includes execution of the test method itself, any repetitions of the
test (see @Repeat
), as well as any set up or tear down of the test fixture.
@Timed(millis=1000)
public void testProcessWithOneSecondTimeout() {
// some logic that should not take longer than 1 second to execute
}
Spring’s @Timed
annotation has different semantics than JUnit 4’s @Test(timeout=…)
support. Specifically, due to the manner in which JUnit 4 handles test execution timeouts
(that is, by executing the test method in a separate Thread
), @Test(timeout=…)
preemptively fails the test if the test takes too long. Spring’s @Timed
, on the other
hand, does not preemptively fail the test but rather waits for the test to complete
before failing.
@Repeat
indicates that the annotated test method must be executed repeatedly. The
number of times that the test method is to be executed is specified in the annotation.
The scope of execution to be repeated includes execution of the test method itself as well as any set up or tear down of the test fixture.
@Repeat(10)
@Test
public void testProcessRepeatedly() {
// ...
}
It is possible to use most test-related annotations as meta-annotations in order to create custom composed annotations and reduce configuration duplication across a test suite.
Each of the following may be used as meta-annotations in conjunction with the TestContext framework.
-
@BootstrapWith
-
@ContextConfiguration
-
@ContextHierarchy
-
@ActiveProfiles
-
@TestPropertySource
-
@DirtiesContext
-
@WebAppConfiguration
-
@TestExecutionListeners
-
@Transactional
-
@BeforeTransaction
-
@AfterTransaction
-
@Commit
-
@Rollback
-
@Sql
-
@SqlConfig
-
@SqlGroup
-
@Repeat
-
@Timed
-
@IfProfileValue
-
@ProfileValueSourceConfiguration
For example, if we discover that we are repeating the following configuration across our JUnit 4 based test suite…
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"/app-config.xml", "/test-data-access-config.xml"})
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
@Transactional
public class OrderRepositoryTests { }
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"/app-config.xml", "/test-data-access-config.xml"})
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
@Transactional
public class UserRepositoryTests { }
We can reduce the above duplication by introducing a custom composed annotation that centralizes the common test configuration like this:
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@ContextConfiguration({"/app-config.xml", "/test-data-access-config.xml"})
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
@Transactional
public @interface TransactionalDevTest { }
Then we can use our custom @TransactionalDevTest
annotation to simplify the
configuration of individual test classes as follows:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@TransactionalDevTest
public class OrderRepositoryTests { }
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@TransactionalDevTest
public class UserRepositoryTests { }
For further details, consult the Spring Annotation Programming Model.
The Spring TestContext Framework (located in the
org.springframework.test.context
package) provides generic, annotation-driven unit and
integration testing support that is agnostic of the testing framework in use. The
TestContext framework also places a great deal of importance on convention over
configuration with reasonable defaults that can be overridden through annotation-based
configuration.
In addition to generic testing infrastructure, the TestContext framework provides
explicit support for JUnit 4 and TestNG in the form of abstract
support classes. For
JUnit 4, Spring also provides a custom JUnit Runner
and custom JUnit Rules
that allow
one to write so-called POJO test classes. POJO test classes are not required to
extend a particular class hierarchy.
The following section provides an overview of the internals of the TestContext framework. If you are only interested in using the framework and not necessarily interested in extending it with your own custom listeners or custom loaders, feel free to go directly to the configuration (context management, dependency injection, transaction management), support classes, and annotation support sections.
The core of the framework consists of the TestContextManager
class and the
TestContext
, TestExecutionListener
, and SmartContextLoader
interfaces. A
TestContextManager
is created per test class (e.g., for the execution of all test
methods within a single test class in JUnit 4). The TestContextManager
in turn manages a
TestContext
that holds the context of the current test. The TestContextManager
also
updates the state of the TestContext
as the test progresses and delegates to
TestExecutionListener
implementations, which instrument the actual test execution by
providing dependency injection, managing transactions, and so on. A SmartContextLoader
is responsible for loading an ApplicationContext
for a given test class. Consult the
javadocs and the Spring test suite for further information and examples of various
implementations.
TestContext
encapsulates the context in which a test is executed, agnostic of the
actual testing framework in use, and provides context management and caching support for
the test instance for which it is responsible. The TestContext
also delegates to a
SmartContextLoader
to load an ApplicationContext
if requested.
TestContextManager
is the main entry point into the Spring TestContext Framework,
which manages a single TestContext
and signals events to each registered
TestExecutionListener
at well-defined test execution points:
-
prior to any before class or before all methods of a particular testing framework
-
test instance post-processing
-
prior to any before or before each methods of a particular testing framework
-
after any after or after each methods of a particular testing framework
-
after any after class or after all methods of a particular testing framework
TestExecutionListener
defines the API for reacting to test execution events published
by the TestContextManager
with which the listener is registered. See
テストエグゼキューションリスナーの設定.
ContextLoader
is a strategy interface that was introduced in Spring 2.5 for loading an
ApplicationContext
for an integration test managed by the Spring TestContext Framework.
Implement SmartContextLoader
instead of this interface in order to provide support for
annotated classes, active bean definition profiles, test property sources, context
hierarchies, and WebApplicationContext
support.
SmartContextLoader
is an extension of the ContextLoader
interface introduced in
Spring 3.1. The SmartContextLoader
SPI supersedes the ContextLoader
SPI that was
introduced in Spring 2.5. Specifically, a SmartContextLoader
can choose to process
resource locations
, annotated classes
, or context initializers
. Furthermore, a
SmartContextLoader
can set active bean definition profiles and test property sources in
the context that it loads.
Spring provides the following implementations:
-
DelegatingSmartContextLoader
: one of two default loaders which delegates internally to anAnnotationConfigContextLoader
, aGenericXmlContextLoader
, or aGenericGroovyXmlContextLoader
depending either on the configuration declared for the test class or on the presence of default locations or default configuration classes. Groovy support is only enabled if Groovy is on the classpath. -
WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader
: one of two default loaders which delegates internally to anAnnotationConfigWebContextLoader
, aGenericXmlWebContextLoader
, or aGenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader
depending either on the configuration declared for the test class or on the presence of default locations or default configuration classes. A webContextLoader
will only be used if@WebAppConfiguration
is present on the test class. Groovy support is only enabled if Groovy is on the classpath. -
AnnotationConfigContextLoader
: loads a standardApplicationContext
from annotated classes. -
AnnotationConfigWebContextLoader
: loads aWebApplicationContext
from annotated classes. -
GenericGroovyXmlContextLoader
: loads a standardApplicationContext
from resource locations that are either Groovy scripts or XML configuration files. -
GenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader
: loads aWebApplicationContext
from resource locations that are either Groovy scripts or XML configuration files. -
GenericXmlContextLoader
: loads a standardApplicationContext
from XML resource locations. -
GenericXmlWebContextLoader
: loads aWebApplicationContext
from XML resource locations. -
GenericPropertiesContextLoader
: loads a standardApplicationContext
from Java Properties files.
The default configuration for the internals of the Spring TestContext Framework is
sufficient for all common use cases. However, there are times when a development team or
third party framework would like to change the default ContextLoader
, implement a
custom TestContext
or ContextCache
, augment the default sets of
ContextCustomizerFactory
and TestExecutionListener
implementations, etc. For such low
level control over how the TestContext framework operates, Spring provides a
bootstrapping strategy.
TestContextBootstrapper
defines the SPI for bootstrapping the TestContext framework.
A TestContextBootstrapper
is used by the TestContextManager
to load the
TestExecutionListener
implementations for the current test and to build the
TestContext
that it manages. A custom bootstrapping strategy can be configured for a
test class (or test class hierarchy) via @BootstrapWith
, either directly or as a
meta-annotation. If a bootstrapper is not explicitly configured via @BootstrapWith
,
either the DefaultTestContextBootstrapper
or the WebTestContextBootstrapper
will be
used, depending on the presence of @WebAppConfiguration
.
Since the TestContextBootstrapper
SPI is likely to change in the future in order to
accommodate new requirements, implementers are strongly encouraged not to implement this
interface directly but rather to extend AbstractTestContextBootstrapper
or one of its
concrete subclasses instead.
Spring provides the following TestExecutionListener
implementations that are registered
by default, exactly in this order.
-
ServletTestExecutionListener
: configures Servlet API mocks for aWebApplicationContext
-
DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener
: handles the@DirtiesContext
annotation for before modes -
DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener
: provides dependency injection for the test instance -
DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener
: handles the@DirtiesContext
annotation for after modes -
TransactionalTestExecutionListener
: provides transactional test execution with default rollback semantics -
SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
: executes SQL scripts configured via the@Sql
annotation
Custom TestExecutionListener
s can be registered for a test class and its subclasses
via the @TestExecutionListeners
annotation. See
annotation support and the javadocs for
@TestExecutionListeners
for details and examples.
Registering custom TestExecutionListener
s via @TestExecutionListeners
is suitable
for custom listeners that are used in limited testing scenarios; however, it can become
cumbersome if a custom listener needs to be used across a test suite. Since Spring
Framework 4.1, this issue is addressed via support for automatic discovery of default
TestExecutionListener
implementations via the SpringFactoriesLoader
mechanism.
Specifically, the spring-test
module declares all core default
TestExecutionListener
s under the
org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener
key in its
META-INF/spring.factories
properties file. Third-party frameworks and developers can
contribute their own TestExecutionListener
s to the list of default listeners in the
same manner via their own META-INF/spring.factories
properties file.
When the TestContext framework discovers default TestExecutionListener
s via the
aforementioned SpringFactoriesLoader
mechanism, the instantiated listeners are sorted
using Spring’s AnnotationAwareOrderComparator
which honors Spring’s Ordered
interface
and @Order
annotation for ordering. AbstractTestExecutionListener
and all default
TestExecutionListener
s provided by Spring implement Ordered
with appropriate
values. Third-party frameworks and developers should therefore make sure that their
default TestExecutionListener
s are registered in the proper order by implementing
Ordered
or declaring @Order
. Consult the javadocs for the getOrder()
methods of the
core default TestExecutionListener
s for details on what values are assigned to each
core listener.
If a custom TestExecutionListener
is registered via @TestExecutionListeners
, the
default listeners will not be registered. In most common testing scenarios, this
effectively forces the developer to manually declare all default listeners in addition to
any custom listeners. The following listing demonstrates this style of configuration.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestExecutionListeners({
MyCustomTestExecutionListener.class,
ServletTestExecutionListener.class,
DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener.class,
DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class,
DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener.class,
TransactionalTestExecutionListener.class,
SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener.class
})
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
The challenge with this approach is that it requires that the developer know exactly
which listeners are registered by default. Moreover, the set of default listeners can
change from release to release — for example, SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
was
introduced in Spring Framework 4.1, and DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener
was introduced in Spring Framework 4.2. Furthermore, third-party frameworks like Spring
Security register their own default TestExecutionListener
s via the aforementioned
automatic discovery mechanism.
To avoid having to be aware of and re-declare all default listeners, the
mergeMode
attribute of @TestExecutionListeners
can be set to
MergeMode.MERGE_WITH_DEFAULTS
. MERGE_WITH_DEFAULTS
indicates that locally declared
listeners should be merged with the default listeners. The merging algorithm ensures that
duplicates are removed from the list and that the resulting set of merged listeners is
sorted according to the semantics of AnnotationAwareOrderComparator
as described in
テストエグゼキューションリスナーの並び換え. If a listener implements Ordered
or is annotated
with @Order
it can influence the position in which it is merged with the defaults;
otherwise, locally declared listeners will simply be appended to the list of default
listeners when merged.
For example, if the MyCustomTestExecutionListener
class in the previous example
configures its order
value (for example, 500
) to be less than the order of the
ServletTestExecutionListener
(which happens to be 1000
), the
MyCustomTestExecutionListener
can then be automatically merged with the list of
defaults in front of the ServletTestExecutionListener
, and the previous example could
be replaced with the following.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestExecutionListeners(
listeners = MyCustomTestExecutionListener.class,
mergeMode = MERGE_WITH_DEFAULTS
)
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
Each TestContext
provides context management and caching support for the test instance
it is responsible for. Test instances do not automatically receive access to the
configured ApplicationContext
. However, if a test class implements the
ApplicationContextAware
interface, a reference to the ApplicationContext
is supplied
to the test instance. Note that AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests
and
AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests
implement ApplicationContextAware
and therefore
provide access to the ApplicationContext
automatically.
Tip
|
@Autowired ApplicationContext
As an alternative to implementing the @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
public class MyTest {
@Autowired
private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
// class body...
} Similarly, if your test is configured to load a @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration
public class MyWebAppTest {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
// class body...
} Dependency injection via |
Test classes that use the TestContext framework do not need to extend any particular
class or implement a specific interface to configure their application context. Instead,
configuration is achieved simply by declaring the @ContextConfiguration
annotation at
the class level. If your test class does not explicitly declare application context
resource locations
or annotated classes
, the configured ContextLoader
determines
how to load a context from a default location or default configuration classes. In
addition to context resource locations
and annotated classes
, an application context
can also be configured via application context initializers
.
The following sections explain how to configure an ApplicationContext
via XML
configuration files, Groovy scripts, annotated classes (typically @Configuration
classes), or context initializers using Spring’s @ContextConfiguration
annotation.
Alternatively, you can implement and configure your own custom SmartContextLoader
for
advanced use cases.
To load an ApplicationContext
for your tests using XML configuration files, annotate
your test class with @ContextConfiguration
and configure the locations
attribute with
an array that contains the resource locations of XML configuration metadata. A plain or
relative path — for example "context.xml"
— will be treated as a classpath resource
that is relative to the package in which the test class is defined. A path starting with
a slash is treated as an absolute classpath location, for example
"/org/example/config.xml"
. A path which represents a resource URL (i.e., a path
prefixed with classpath:
, file:
, http:
, etc.) will be used as is.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/app-config.xml" and
// "/test-config.xml" in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration(locations={"/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml"})
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
@ContextConfiguration
supports an alias for the locations
attribute through the
standard Java value
attribute. Thus, if you do not need to declare additional
attributes in @ContextConfiguration
, you can omit the declaration of the locations
attribute name and declare the resource locations by using the shorthand format
demonstrated in the following example.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml"})
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
If you omit both the locations
and value
attributes from the @ContextConfiguration
annotation, the TestContext framework will attempt to detect a default XML resource
location. Specifically, GenericXmlContextLoader
and GenericXmlWebContextLoader
detect
a default location based on the name of the test class. If your class is named
com.example.MyTest
, GenericXmlContextLoader
loads your application context from
"classpath:com/example/MyTest-context.xml"
.
package com.example;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from
// "classpath:com/example/MyTest-context.xml"
@ContextConfiguration
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
To load an ApplicationContext
for your tests using Groovy scripts that utilize the
Groovy Bean Definition DSL, annotate your test class with
@ContextConfiguration
and configure the locations
or value
attribute with an array
that contains the resource locations of Groovy scripts. Resource lookup semantics for
Groovy scripts are the same as those described for XML
configuration files.
Tip
|
Enabling Groovy script support
Support for using Groovy scripts to load an |
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/AppConfig.groovy" and
// "/TestConfig.groovy" in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration({"/AppConfig.groovy", "/TestConfig.Groovy"})
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
If you omit both the locations
and value
attributes from the @ContextConfiguration
annotation, the TestContext framework will attempt to detect a default Groovy script.
Specifically, GenericGroovyXmlContextLoader
and GenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader
detect a default location based on the name of the test class. If your class is named
com.example.MyTest
, the Groovy context loader will load your application context from
"classpath:com/example/MyTestContext.groovy"
.
package com.example;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from
// "classpath:com/example/MyTestContext.groovy"
@ContextConfiguration
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
Tip
|
Declaring XML config and Groovy scripts simultaneously
Both XML configuration files and Groovy scripts can be declared simultaneously via the
The following listing demonstrates how to combine both in an integration test. @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from
// "/app-config.xml" and "/TestConfig.groovy"
@ContextConfiguration({ "/app-config.xml", "/TestConfig.groovy" })
public class MyTest {
// class body...
} |
To load an ApplicationContext
for your tests using annotated classes (see
[beans-java]), annotate your test class with @ContextConfiguration
and configure the
classes
attribute with an array that contains references to annotated classes.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from AppConfig and TestConfig
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {AppConfig.class, TestConfig.class})
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
Tip
|
Annotated Classes
The term annotated class can refer to any of the following.
Consult the javadocs of |
If you omit the classes
attribute from the @ContextConfiguration
annotation, the
TestContext framework will attempt to detect the presence of default configuration
classes. Specifically, AnnotationConfigContextLoader
and
AnnotationConfigWebContextLoader
will detect all static
nested classes of the test class
that meet the requirements for configuration class implementations as specified in the
@Configuration
javadocs. In the following example, the OrderServiceTest
class
declares a static
nested configuration class named Config
that will be automatically
used to load the ApplicationContext
for the test class. Note that the name of the
configuration class is arbitrary. In addition, a test class can contain more than one
static
nested configuration class if desired.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from the
// static nested Config class
@ContextConfiguration
public class OrderServiceTest {
@Configuration
static class Config {
// this bean will be injected into the OrderServiceTest class
@Bean
public OrderService orderService() {
OrderService orderService = new OrderServiceImpl();
// set properties, etc.
return orderService;
}
}
@Autowired
private OrderService orderService;
@Test
public void testOrderService() {
// test the orderService
}
}
It may sometimes be desirable to mix XML configuration files, Groovy scripts, and
annotated classes (i.e., typically @Configuration
classes) to configure an
ApplicationContext
for your tests. For example, if you use XML configuration in
production, you may decide that you want to use @Configuration
classes to configure
specific Spring-managed components for your tests, or vice versa.
Furthermore, some third-party frameworks (like Spring Boot) provide first-class support
for loading an ApplicationContext
from different types of resources simultaneously
(e.g., XML configuration files, Groovy scripts, and @Configuration
classes). The Spring
Framework historically has not supported this for standard deployments. Consequently,
most of the SmartContextLoader
implementations that the Spring Framework delivers in
the spring-test
module support only one resource type per test context; however, this
does not mean that you cannot use both. One exception to the general rule is that the
GenericGroovyXmlContextLoader
and GenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader
support both XML
configuration files and Groovy scripts simultaneously. Furthermore, third-party
frameworks may choose to support the declaration of both locations
and classes
via
@ContextConfiguration
, and with the standard testing support in the TestContext
framework, you have the following options.
If you want to use resource locations (e.g., XML or Groovy) and @Configuration
classes to configure your tests, you will have to pick one as the entry point, and
that one will have to include or import the other. For example, in XML or Groovy scripts
you can include @Configuration
classes via component scanning or define them as normal
Spring beans; whereas, in a @Configuration
class you can use @ImportResource
to
import XML configuration files or Groovy scripts. Note that this behavior is semantically
equivalent to how you configure your application in production: in production
configuration you will define either a set of XML or Groovy resource locations or a set
of @Configuration
classes that your production ApplicationContext
will be loaded
from, but you still have the freedom to include or import the other type of configuration.
To configure an ApplicationContext
for your tests using context initializers, annotate
your test class with @ContextConfiguration
and configure the initializers
attribute
with an array that contains references to classes that implement
ApplicationContextInitializer
. The declared context initializers will then be used to
initialize the ConfigurableApplicationContext
that is loaded for your tests. Note that
the concrete ConfigurableApplicationContext
type supported by each declared
initializer must be compatible with the type of ApplicationContext
created by the
SmartContextLoader
in use (i.e., typically a GenericApplicationContext
).
Furthermore, the order in which the initializers are invoked depends on whether they
implement Spring’s Ordered
interface or are annotated with Spring’s @Order
annotation
or the standard @Priority
annotation.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from TestConfig
// and initialized by TestAppCtxInitializer
@ContextConfiguration(
classes = TestConfig.class,
initializers = TestAppCtxInitializer.class)
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
It is also possible to omit the declaration of XML configuration files, Groovy scripts,
or annotated classes in @ContextConfiguration
entirely and instead declare only
ApplicationContextInitializer
classes which are then responsible for registering beans
in the context — for example, by programmatically loading bean definitions from XML
files or configuration classes.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be initialized by EntireAppInitializer
// which presumably registers beans in the context
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = EntireAppInitializer.class)
public class MyTest {
// class body...
}
@ContextConfiguration
supports boolean inheritLocations
and inheritInitializers
attributes that denote whether resource locations or annotated classes and context
initializers declared by superclasses should be inherited. The default value for
both flags is true
. This means that a test class inherits the resource locations or
annotated classes as well as the context initializers declared by any superclasses.
Specifically, the resource locations or annotated classes for a test class are appended
to the list of resource locations or annotated classes declared by superclasses.
Similarly, the initializers for a given test class will be added to the set of
initializers defined by test superclasses. Thus, subclasses have the option
of extending the resource locations, annotated classes, or context initializers.
If the inheritLocations
or inheritInitializers
attribute in @ContextConfiguration
is set to false
, the resource locations or annotated classes and the context
initializers, respectively, for the test class shadow and effectively replace the
configuration defined by superclasses.
In the following example that uses XML resource locations, the ApplicationContext
for
ExtendedTest
will be loaded from "base-config.xml" and
"extended-config.xml", in that order. Beans defined in "extended-config.xml" may
therefore override (i.e., replace) those defined in "base-config.xml".
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/base-config.xml"
// in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration("/base-config.xml")
public class BaseTest {
// class body...
}
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/base-config.xml" and
// "/extended-config.xml" in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration("/extended-config.xml")
public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
// class body...
}
Similarly, in the following example that uses annotated classes, the
ApplicationContext
for ExtendedTest
will be loaded from the BaseConfig
and
ExtendedConfig
classes, in that order. Beans defined in ExtendedConfig
may therefore
override (i.e., replace) those defined in BaseConfig
.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from BaseConfig
@ContextConfiguration(classes = BaseConfig.class)
public class BaseTest {
// class body...
}
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from BaseConfig and ExtendedConfig
@ContextConfiguration(classes = ExtendedConfig.class)
public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
// class body...
}
In the following example that uses context initializers, the ApplicationContext
for
ExtendedTest
will be initialized using BaseInitializer
and
ExtendedInitializer
. Note, however, that the order in which the initializers are
invoked depends on whether they implement Spring’s Ordered
interface or are annotated
with Spring’s @Order
annotation or the standard @Priority
annotation.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be initialized by BaseInitializer
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = BaseInitializer.class)
public class BaseTest {
// class body...
}
// ApplicationContext will be initialized by BaseInitializer
// and ExtendedInitializer
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = ExtendedInitializer.class)
public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
// class body...
}
Spring 3.1 introduced first-class support in the framework for the notion of
environments and profiles (a.k.a., bean definition profiles), and integration tests
can be configured to activate particular bean definition profiles for various testing
scenarios. This is achieved by annotating a test class with the @ActiveProfiles
annotation and supplying a list of profiles that should be activated when loading the
ApplicationContext
for the test.
Note
|
|
Let’s take a look at some examples with XML configuration and @Configuration
classes.
<!-- app-config.xml -->
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xsi:schemaLocation="...">
<bean id="transferService"
class="com.bank.service.internal.DefaultTransferService">
<constructor-arg ref="accountRepository"/>
<constructor-arg ref="feePolicy"/>
</bean>
<bean id="accountRepository"
class="com.bank.repository.internal.JdbcAccountRepository">
<constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="feePolicy"
class="com.bank.service.internal.ZeroFeePolicy"/>
<beans profile="dev">
<jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource">
<jdbc:script
location="classpath:com/bank/config/sql/schema.sql"/>
<jdbc:script
location="classpath:com/bank/config/sql/test-data.sql"/>
</jdbc:embedded-database>
</beans>
<beans profile="production">
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/datasource"/>
</beans>
<beans profile="default">
<jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource">
<jdbc:script
location="classpath:com/bank/config/sql/schema.sql"/>
</jdbc:embedded-database>
</beans>
</beans>
package com.bank.service;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "classpath:/app-config.xml"
@ContextConfiguration("/app-config.xml")
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
public class TransferServiceTest {
@Autowired
private TransferService transferService;
@Test
public void testTransferService() {
// test the transferService
}
}
When TransferServiceTest
is run, its ApplicationContext
will be loaded from the
app-config.xml
configuration file in the root of the classpath. If you inspect
app-config.xml
you’ll notice that the accountRepository
bean has a dependency on a
dataSource
bean; however, dataSource
is not defined as a top-level bean. Instead,
dataSource
is defined three times: in the production profile, the
dev profile, and the default profile.
By annotating TransferServiceTest
with @ActiveProfiles("dev")
we instruct the Spring
TestContext Framework to load the ApplicationContext
with the active profiles set to
{"dev"}
. As a result, an embedded database will be created and populated with test data,
and the accountRepository
bean will be wired with a reference to the development
DataSource
. And that’s likely what we want in an integration test.
It is sometimes useful to assign beans to a default
profile. Beans within the default profile
are only included when no other profile is specifically activated. This can be used to define
fallback beans to be used in the application’s default state. For example, you may
explicitly provide a data source for dev
and production
profiles, but define an in-memory
data source as a default when neither of these is active.
The following code listings demonstrate how to implement the same configuration and
integration test but using @Configuration
classes instead of XML.
@Configuration
@Profile("dev")
public class StandaloneDataConfig {
@Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {
return new EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder()
.setType(EmbeddedDatabaseType.HSQL)
.addScript("classpath:com/bank/config/sql/schema.sql")
.addScript("classpath:com/bank/config/sql/test-data.sql")
.build();
}
}
@Configuration
@Profile("production")
public class JndiDataConfig {
@Bean(destroyMethod="")
public DataSource dataSource() throws Exception {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
return (DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/datasource");
}
}
@Configuration
@Profile("default")
public class DefaultDataConfig {
@Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {
return new EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder()
.setType(EmbeddedDatabaseType.HSQL)
.addScript("classpath:com/bank/config/sql/schema.sql")
.build();
}
}
@Configuration
public class TransferServiceConfig {
@Autowired DataSource dataSource;
@Bean
public TransferService transferService() {
return new DefaultTransferService(accountRepository(), feePolicy());
}
@Bean
public AccountRepository accountRepository() {
return new JdbcAccountRepository(dataSource);
}
@Bean
public FeePolicy feePolicy() {
return new ZeroFeePolicy();
}
}
package com.bank.service;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {
TransferServiceConfig.class,
StandaloneDataConfig.class,
JndiDataConfig.class,
DefaultDataConfig.class})
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
public class TransferServiceTest {
@Autowired
private TransferService transferService;
@Test
public void testTransferService() {
// test the transferService
}
}
In this variation, we have split the XML configuration into four independent
@Configuration
classes:
-
TransferServiceConfig
: acquires adataSource
via dependency injection using@Autowired
-
StandaloneDataConfig
: defines adataSource
for an embedded database suitable for developer tests -
JndiDataConfig
: defines adataSource
that is retrieved from JNDI in a production environment -
DefaultDataConfig
: defines adataSource
for a default embedded database in case no profile is active
As with the XML-based configuration example, we still annotate TransferServiceTest
with @ActiveProfiles("dev")
, but this time we specify all four configuration classes
via the @ContextConfiguration
annotation. The body of the test class itself remains
completely unchanged.
It is often the case that a single set of profiles is used across multiple test classes
within a given project. Thus, to avoid duplicate declarations of the @ActiveProfiles
annotation it is possible to declare @ActiveProfiles
once on a base class, and
subclasses will automatically inherit the @ActiveProfiles
configuration from the base
class. In the following example, the declaration of @ActiveProfiles
(as well as other
annotations) has been moved to an abstract superclass, AbstractIntegrationTest
.
package com.bank.service;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {
TransferServiceConfig.class,
StandaloneDataConfig.class,
JndiDataConfig.class,
DefaultDataConfig.class})
@ActiveProfiles("dev")
public abstract class AbstractIntegrationTest {
}
package com.bank.service;
// "dev" profile inherited from superclass
public class TransferServiceTest extends AbstractIntegrationTest {
@Autowired
private TransferService transferService;
@Test
public void testTransferService() {
// test the transferService
}
}
@ActiveProfiles
also supports an inheritProfiles
attribute that can be used to
disable the inheritance of active profiles.
package com.bank.service;
// "dev" profile overridden with "production"
@ActiveProfiles(profiles = "production", inheritProfiles = false)
public class ProductionTransferServiceTest extends AbstractIntegrationTest {
// test body
}
Furthermore, it is sometimes necessary to resolve active profiles for tests programmatically instead of declaratively — for example, based on:
-
the current operating system
-
whether tests are being executed on a continuous integration build server
-
the presence of certain environment variables
-
the presence of custom class-level annotations
-
etc.
To resolve active bean definition profiles programmatically, simply implement a custom
ActiveProfilesResolver
and register it via the resolver
attribute of
@ActiveProfiles
. The following example demonstrates how to implement and register a
custom OperatingSystemActiveProfilesResolver
. For further information, refer to the
corresponding javadocs.
package com.bank.service;
// "dev" profile overridden programmatically via a custom resolver
@ActiveProfiles(
resolver = OperatingSystemActiveProfilesResolver.class,
inheritProfiles = false)
public class TransferServiceTest extends AbstractIntegrationTest {
// test body
}
package com.bank.service.test;
public class OperatingSystemActiveProfilesResolver implements ActiveProfilesResolver {
@Override
String[] resolve(Class<?> testClass) {
String profile = ...;
// determine the value of profile based on the operating system
return new String[] {profile};
}
}
Spring 3.1 introduced first-class support in the framework for the notion of an
environment with a hierarchy of property sources, and since Spring 4.1 integration
tests can be configured with test-specific property sources. In contrast to the
@PropertySource
annotation used on @Configuration
classes, the @TestPropertySource
annotation can be declared on a test class to declare resource locations for test
properties files or inlined properties. These test property sources will be added to
the set of PropertySources
in the Environment
for the ApplicationContext
loaded
for the annotated integration test.
Note
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Implementations of |
Declaring test property sources
Test properties files can be configured via the locations
or value
attribute of
@TestPropertySource
as shown in the following example.
Both traditional and XML-based properties file formats are supported — for example,
"classpath:/com/example/test.properties"
or "file:///path/to/file.xml"
.
Each path will be interpreted as a Spring Resource
. A plain path — for example,
"test.properties"
— will be treated as a classpath resource that is relative to the
package in which the test class is defined. A path starting with a slash will be treated
as an absolute classpath resource, for example: "/org/example/test.xml"
. A path which
references a URL (e.g., a path prefixed with classpath:
, file:
, http:
, etc.) will
be loaded using the specified resource protocol. Resource location wildcards (e.g.
*/.properties
) are not permitted: each location must evaluate to exactly one
.properties
or .xml
resource.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestPropertySource("/test.properties")
public class MyIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
Inlined properties in the form of key-value pairs can be configured via the
properties
attribute of @TestPropertySource
as shown in the following example. All
key-value pairs will be added to the enclosing Environment
as a single test
PropertySource
with the highest precedence.
The supported syntax for key-value pairs is the same as the syntax defined for entries in a Java properties file:
-
"key=value"
-
"key:value"
-
"key value"
@ContextConfiguration
@TestPropertySource(properties = {"timezone = GMT", "port: 4242"})
public class MyIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
Default properties file detection
If @TestPropertySource
is declared as an empty annotation (i.e., without explicit
values for the locations
or properties
attributes), an attempt will be made to detect
a default properties file relative to the class that declared the annotation. For
example, if the annotated test class is com.example.MyTest
, the corresponding default
properties file is "classpath:com/example/MyTest.properties"
. If the default cannot be
detected, an IllegalStateException
will be thrown.
Precedence
Test property sources have higher precedence than those loaded from the operating
system’s environment or Java system properties as well as property sources added by the
application declaratively via @PropertySource
or programmatically. Thus, test property
sources can be used to selectively override properties defined in system and application
property sources. Furthermore, inlined properties have higher precedence than properties
loaded from resource locations.
In the following example, the timezone
and port
properties as well as any properties
defined in "/test.properties"
will override any properties of the same name that are
defined in system and application property sources. Furthermore, if the
"/test.properties"
file defines entries for the timezone
and port
properties those
will be overridden by the inlined properties declared via the properties
attribute.
@ContextConfiguration
@TestPropertySource(
locations = "/test.properties",
properties = {"timezone = GMT", "port: 4242"}
)
public class MyIntegrationTests {
// class body...
}
Inheriting and overriding test property sources
@TestPropertySource
supports boolean inheritLocations
and inheritProperties
attributes that denote whether resource locations for properties files and inlined
properties declared by superclasses should be inherited. The default value for both
flags is true
. This means that a test class inherits the locations and inlined
properties declared by any superclasses. Specifically, the locations and inlined
properties for a test class are appended to the locations and inlined properties declared
by superclasses. Thus, subclasses have the option of extending the locations and
inlined properties. Note that properties that appear later will shadow (i.e..,
override) properties of the same name that appear earlier. In addition, the
aforementioned precedence rules apply for inherited test property sources as well.
If the inheritLocations
or inheritProperties
attribute in @TestPropertySource
is set
to false
, the locations or inlined properties, respectively, for the test class shadow
and effectively replace the configuration defined by superclasses.
In the following example, the ApplicationContext
for BaseTest
will be loaded using
only the "base.properties"
file as a test property source. In contrast, the
ApplicationContext
for ExtendedTest
will be loaded using the "base.properties"
and "extended.properties"
files as test property source locations.
@TestPropertySource("base.properties")
@ContextConfiguration
public class BaseTest {
// ...
}
@TestPropertySource("extended.properties")
@ContextConfiguration
public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
// ...
}
In the following example, the ApplicationContext
for BaseTest
will be loaded using only
the inlined key1
property. In contrast, the ApplicationContext
for ExtendedTest
will be
loaded using the inlined key1
and key2
properties.
@TestPropertySource(properties = "key1 = value1")
@ContextConfiguration
public class BaseTest {
// ...
}
@TestPropertySource(properties = "key2 = value2")
@ContextConfiguration
public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
// ...
}
Spring 3.2 introduced support for loading a WebApplicationContext
in integration
tests. To instruct the TestContext framework to load a WebApplicationContext
instead
of a standard ApplicationContext
, simply annotate the respective test class with
@WebAppConfiguration
.
The presence of @WebAppConfiguration
on your test class instructs the TestContext
framework (TCF) that a WebApplicationContext
(WAC) should be loaded for your
integration tests. In the background the TCF makes sure that a MockServletContext
is
created and supplied to your test’s WAC. By default the base resource path for your
MockServletContext
will be set to "src/main/webapp". This is interpreted as a path
relative to the root of your JVM (i.e., normally the path to your project). If you’re
familiar with the directory structure of a web application in a Maven project, you’ll
know that "src/main/webapp" is the default location for the root of your WAR. If you
need to override this default, simply provide an alternate path to the
@WebAppConfiguration
annotation (e.g., @WebAppConfiguration("src/test/webapp")
). If
you wish to reference a base resource path from the classpath instead of the file
system, just use Spring’s classpath: prefix.
Please note that Spring’s testing support for WebApplicationContexts
is on par with its
support for standard ApplicationContexts
. When testing with a WebApplicationContext
you are free to declare XML configuration files, Groovy scripts, or @Configuration
classes via @ContextConfiguration
. You are of course also free to use any other test
annotations such as @ActiveProfiles
, @TestExecutionListeners
, @Sql
, @Rollback
,
etc.
The following examples demonstrate some of the various configuration options for loading
a WebApplicationContext
.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// defaults to "file:src/main/webapp"
@WebAppConfiguration
// detects "WacTests-context.xml" in same package
// or static nested @Configuration class
@ContextConfiguration
public class WacTests {
//...
}
The above example demonstrates the TestContext framework’s support for convention over
configuration. If you annotate a test class with @WebAppConfiguration
without
specifying a resource base path, the resource path will effectively default
to "file:src/main/webapp". Similarly, if you declare @ContextConfiguration
without
specifying resource locations
, annotated classes
, or context initializers
, Spring
will attempt to detect the presence of your configuration using conventions
(i.e., "WacTests-context.xml" in the same package as the WacTests
class or static
nested @Configuration
classes).
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// file system resource
@WebAppConfiguration("webapp")
// classpath resource
@ContextConfiguration("/spring/test-servlet-config.xml")
public class WacTests {
//...
}
This example demonstrates how to explicitly declare a resource base path with
@WebAppConfiguration
and an XML resource location with @ContextConfiguration
. The
important thing to note here is the different semantics for paths with these two
annotations. By default, @WebAppConfiguration
resource paths are file system based;
whereas, @ContextConfiguration
resource locations are classpath based.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// classpath resource
@WebAppConfiguration("classpath:test-web-resources")
// file system resource
@ContextConfiguration("file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/servlet-config.xml")
public class WacTests {
//...
}
In this third example, we see that we can override the default resource semantics for both annotations by specifying a Spring resource prefix. Contrast the comments in this example with the previous example.
To provide comprehensive web testing support, Spring 3.2 introduced a
ServletTestExecutionListener
that is enabled by default. When testing against a
WebApplicationContext
this TestExecutionListener sets
up default thread-local state via Spring Web’s RequestContextHolder
before each test
method and creates a MockHttpServletRequest
, MockHttpServletResponse
, and
ServletWebRequest
based on the base resource path configured via
@WebAppConfiguration
. ServletTestExecutionListener
also ensures that the
MockHttpServletResponse
and ServletWebRequest
can be injected into the test
instance, and once the test is complete it cleans up thread-local state.
Once you have a WebApplicationContext
loaded for your test you might find that you
need to interact with the web mocks — for example, to set up your test fixture or to
perform assertions after invoking your web component. The following example demonstrates
which mocks can be autowired into your test instance. Note that the
WebApplicationContext
and MockServletContext
are both cached across the test suite;
whereas, the other mocks are managed per test method by the
ServletTestExecutionListener
.
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration
public class WacTests {
@Autowired
WebApplicationContext wac; // cached
@Autowired
MockServletContext servletContext; // cached
@Autowired
MockHttpSession session;
@Autowired
MockHttpServletRequest request;
@Autowired
MockHttpServletResponse response;
@Autowired
ServletWebRequest webRequest;
//...
}
Once the TestContext framework loads an ApplicationContext
(or WebApplicationContext
)
for a test, that context will be cached and reused for all subsequent tests that
declare the same unique context configuration within the same test suite. To understand
how caching works, it is important to understand what is meant by unique and test
suite.
An ApplicationContext
can be uniquely identified by the combination of
configuration parameters that are used to load it. Consequently, the unique combination
of configuration parameters are used to generate a key under which the context is
cached. The TestContext framework uses the following configuration parameters to build
the context cache key:
-
locations
(from @ContextConfiguration) -
classes
(from @ContextConfiguration) -
contextInitializerClasses
(from @ContextConfiguration) -
contextCustomizers
(from ContextCustomizerFactory) -
contextLoader
(from @ContextConfiguration) -
parent
(from @ContextHierarchy) -
activeProfiles
(from @ActiveProfiles) -
propertySourceLocations
(from @TestPropertySource) -
propertySourceProperties
(from @TestPropertySource) -
resourceBasePath
(from @WebAppConfiguration)
For example, if TestClassA
specifies {"app-config.xml", "test-config.xml"}
for the
locations
(or value
) attribute of @ContextConfiguration
, the TestContext framework
will load the corresponding ApplicationContext
and store it in a static
context cache
under a key that is based solely on those locations. So if TestClassB
also defines
{"app-config.xml", "test-config.xml"}
for its locations (either explicitly or
implicitly through inheritance) but does not define @WebAppConfiguration
, a different
ContextLoader
, different active profiles, different context initializers, different
test property sources, or a different parent context, then the same ApplicationContext
will be shared by both test classes. This means that the setup cost for loading an
application context is incurred only once (per test suite), and subsequent test execution
is much faster.
Note
|
Test suites and forked processes
The Spring TestContext framework stores application contexts in a static cache. This
means that the context is literally stored in a To benefit from the caching mechanism, all tests must run within the same process or
test suite. This can be achieved by executing all tests as a group within an IDE.
Similarly, when executing tests with a build framework such as Ant, Maven, or Gradle it
is important to make sure that the build framework does not fork between tests. For
example, if the
forkMode
for the Maven Surefire plug-in is set to |
Since Spring Framework 4.3, the size of the context cache is bounded with a default
maximum size of 32. Whenever the maximum size is reached, a least recently used (LRU)
eviction policy is used to evict and close stale contexts. The maximum size can be
configured from the command line or a build script by setting a JVM system property named
spring.test.context.cache.maxSize
. As an alternative, the same property can be set
programmatically via the SpringProperties
API.
Since having a large number of application contexts loaded within a given test suite can
cause the suite to take an unnecessarily long time to execute, it is often beneficial to
know exactly how many contexts have been loaded and cached. To view the statistics for
the underlying context cache, simply set the log level for the
org.springframework.test.context.cache
logging category to DEBUG
.
In the unlikely case that a test corrupts the application context and requires reloading — for example, by modifying a bean definition or the state of an application object — you can annotate your test class or test method with @DirtiesContext
(see the
discussion of @DirtiesContext
in Spring テストアノテーション). This
instructs Spring to remove the context from the cache and rebuild the application
context before executing the next test. Note that support for the @DirtiesContext
annotation is provided by the DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener
and the
DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener
which are enabled by default.
When writing integration tests that rely on a loaded Spring ApplicationContext
, it is
often sufficient to test against a single context; however, there are times when it is
beneficial or even necessary to test against a hierarchy of ApplicationContext
s. For
example, if you are developing a Spring MVC web application you will typically have a
root WebApplicationContext
loaded via Spring’s ContextLoaderListener
and a child
WebApplicationContext
loaded via Spring’s DispatcherServlet
. This results in a
parent-child context hierarchy where shared components and infrastructure configuration
are declared in the root context and consumed in the child context by web-specific
components. Another use case can be found in Spring Batch applications where you often
have a parent context that provides configuration for shared batch infrastructure and a
child context for the configuration of a specific batch job.
Since Spring Framework 3.2.2, it is possible to write integration tests that use context
hierarchies by declaring context configuration via the @ContextHierarchy
annotation,
either on an individual test class or within a test class hierarchy. If a context
hierarchy is declared on multiple classes within a test class hierarchy it is also
possible to merge or override the context configuration for a specific, named level in
the context hierarchy. When merging configuration for a given level in the hierarchy the
configuration resource type (i.e., XML configuration files or annotated classes) must be
consistent; otherwise, it is perfectly acceptable to have different levels in a context
hierarchy configured using different resource types.
The following JUnit 4 based examples demonstrate common configuration scenarios for integration tests that require the use of context hierarchies.
ControllerIntegrationTests
represents a typical integration testing scenario for a
Spring MVC web application by declaring a context hierarchy consisting of two levels,
one for the root WebApplicationContext (loaded using the TestAppConfig
@Configuration
class) and one for the dispatcher servlet WebApplicationContext
(loaded using the WebConfig
@Configuration
class). The WebApplicationContext
that
is autowired into the test instance is the one for the child context (i.e., the
lowest context in the hierarchy).
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestAppConfig.class),
@ContextConfiguration(classes = WebConfig.class)
})
public class ControllerIntegrationTests {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
// ...
}
The following test classes define a context hierarchy within a test class hierarchy.
AbstractWebTests
declares the configuration for a root WebApplicationContext
in a
Spring-powered web application. Note, however, that AbstractWebTests
does not declare
@ContextHierarchy
; consequently, subclasses of AbstractWebTests
can optionally
participate in a context hierarchy or simply follow the standard semantics for
@ContextConfiguration
. SoapWebServiceTests
and RestWebServiceTests
both extend
AbstractWebTests
and define a context hierarchy via @ContextHierarchy
. The result is
that three application contexts will be loaded (one for each declaration of
@ContextConfiguration
), and the application context loaded based on the configuration
in AbstractWebTests
will be set as the parent context for each of the contexts loaded
for the concrete subclasses.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration("file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml")
public abstract class AbstractWebTests {}
@ContextHierarchy(@ContextConfiguration("/spring/soap-ws-config.xml")
public class SoapWebServiceTests extends AbstractWebTests {}
@ContextHierarchy(@ContextConfiguration("/spring/rest-ws-config.xml")
public class RestWebServiceTests extends AbstractWebTests {}
The following classes demonstrate the use of named hierarchy levels in order to
merge the configuration for specific levels in a context hierarchy. BaseTests
defines two levels in the hierarchy, parent
and child
. ExtendedTests
extends
BaseTests
and instructs the Spring TestContext Framework to merge the context
configuration for the child
hierarchy level, simply by ensuring that the names
declared via the name
attribute in @ContextConfiguration
are both "child"
. The
result is that three application contexts will be loaded: one for "/app-config.xml"
,
one for "/user-config.xml"
, and one for {"/user-config.xml", "/order-config.xml"}
.
As with the previous example, the application context loaded from "/app-config.xml"
will be set as the parent context for the contexts loaded from "/user-config.xml"
and {"/user-config.xml", "/order-config.xml"}
.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration(name = "parent", locations = "/app-config.xml"),
@ContextConfiguration(name = "child", locations = "/user-config.xml")
})
public class BaseTests {}
@ContextHierarchy(
@ContextConfiguration(name = "child", locations = "/order-config.xml")
)
public class ExtendedTests extends BaseTests {}
In contrast to the previous example, this example demonstrates how to override the
configuration for a given named level in a context hierarchy by setting the
inheritLocations
flag in @ContextConfiguration
to false
. Consequently, the
application context for ExtendedTests
will be loaded only from
"/test-user-config.xml"
and will have its parent set to the context loaded from
"/app-config.xml"
.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextHierarchy({
@ContextConfiguration(name = "parent", locations = "/app-config.xml"),
@ContextConfiguration(name = "child", locations = "/user-config.xml")
})
public class BaseTests {}
@ContextHierarchy(
@ContextConfiguration(
name = "child",
locations = "/test-user-config.xml",
inheritLocations = false
))
public class ExtendedTests extends BaseTests {}
Note
|
Dirtying a context within a context hierarchy
If |
When you use the DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener
— which is configured by
default — the dependencies of your test instances are injected from beans in the
application context that you configured with @ContextConfiguration
. You may use setter
injection, field injection, or both, depending on which annotations you choose and
whether you place them on setter methods or fields. For consistency with the annotation
support introduced in Spring 2.5 and 3.0, you can use Spring’s @Autowired
annotation
or the @Inject
annotation from JSR 330.
Tip
|
The TestContext framework does not instrument the manner in which a test instance is
instantiated. Thus the use of |
Because @Autowired
is used to perform autowiring by type
, if you have multiple bean definitions of the same type, you cannot rely on this
approach for those particular beans. In that case, you can use @Autowired
in
conjunction with @Qualifier
. As of Spring 3.0 you may also choose to use @Inject
in
conjunction with @Named
. Alternatively, if your test class has access to its
ApplicationContext
, you can perform an explicit lookup by using (for example) a call
to applicationContext.getBean("titleRepository")
.
If you do not want dependency injection applied to your test instances, simply do not
annotate fields or setter methods with @Autowired
or @Inject
. Alternatively, you can
disable dependency injection altogether by explicitly configuring your class with
@TestExecutionListeners
and omitting DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class
from the list of listeners.
Consider the scenario of testing a HibernateTitleRepository
class, as outlined in the
Goals section. The next two code listings demonstrate the
use of @Autowired
on fields and setter methods. The application context configuration
is presented after all sample code listings.
Note
|
The dependency injection behavior in the following code listings is not specific to JUnit 4. The same DI techniques can be used in conjunction with any testing framework. The following examples make calls to static assertion methods such as |
The first code listing shows a JUnit 4 based implementation of the test class that uses
@Autowired
for field injection.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// specifies the Spring configuration to load for this test fixture
@ContextConfiguration("repository-config.xml")
public class HibernateTitleRepositoryTests {
// this instance will be dependency injected by type
@Autowired
private HibernateTitleRepository titleRepository;
@Test
public void findById() {
Title title = titleRepository.findById(new Long(10));
assertNotNull(title);
}
}
Alternatively, you can configure the class to use @Autowired
for setter injection as
seen below.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// specifies the Spring configuration to load for this test fixture
@ContextConfiguration("repository-config.xml")
public class HibernateTitleRepositoryTests {
// this instance will be dependency injected by type
private HibernateTitleRepository titleRepository;
@Autowired
public void setTitleRepository(HibernateTitleRepository titleRepository) {
this.titleRepository = titleRepository;
}
@Test
public void findById() {
Title title = titleRepository.findById(new Long(10));
assertNotNull(title);
}
}
The preceding code listings use the same XML context file referenced by the
@ContextConfiguration
annotation (that is, repository-config.xml
), which looks like
this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<!-- this bean will be injected into the HibernateTitleRepositoryTests class -->
<bean id="titleRepository" class="com.foo.repository.hibernate.HibernateTitleRepository">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<!-- configuration elided for brevity -->
</bean>
</beans>
Note
|
If you are extending from a Spring-provided test base class that happens to use
// ...
@Autowired
@Override
public void setDataSource(@Qualifier("myDataSource") DataSource dataSource) {
super.setDataSource(dataSource);
}
// ... The specified qualifier value indicates the specific |
Request and session scoped beans have been supported by Spring since the early years, and since Spring 3.2 it’s a breeze to test your request-scoped and session-scoped beans by following these steps.
-
Ensure that a
WebApplicationContext
is loaded for your test by annotating your test class with@WebAppConfiguration
. -
Inject the mock request or session into your test instance and prepare your test fixture as appropriate.
-
Invoke your web component that you retrieved from the configured
WebApplicationContext
(i.e., via dependency injection). -
Perform assertions against the mocks.
The following code snippet displays the XML configuration for a login use case. Note
that the userService
bean has a dependency on a request-scoped loginAction
bean.
Also, the LoginAction
is instantiated using SpEL expressions that
retrieve the username and password from the current HTTP request. In our test, we will
want to configure these request parameters via the mock managed by the TestContext
framework.
<beans>
<bean id="userService"
class="com.example.SimpleUserService"
c:loginAction-ref="loginAction" />
<bean id="loginAction" class="com.example.LoginAction"
c:username="#{request.getParameter('user')}"
c:password="#{request.getParameter('pswd')}"
scope="request">
<aop:scoped-proxy />
</bean>
</beans>
In RequestScopedBeanTests
we inject both the UserService
(i.e., the subject under
test) and the MockHttpServletRequest
into our test instance. Within our
requestScope()
test method we set up our test fixture by setting request parameters in
the provided MockHttpServletRequest
. When the loginUser()
method is invoked on our
userService
we are assured that the user service has access to the request-scoped
loginAction
for the current MockHttpServletRequest
(i.e., the one we just set
parameters in). We can then perform assertions against the results based on the known
inputs for the username and password.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@WebAppConfiguration
public class RequestScopedBeanTests {
@Autowired UserService userService;
@Autowired MockHttpServletRequest request;
@Test
public void requestScope() {
request.setParameter("user", "enigma");
request.setParameter("pswd", "$pr!ng");
LoginResults results = userService.loginUser();
// assert results
}
}
The following code snippet is similar to the one we saw above for a request-scoped bean;
however, this time the userService
bean has a dependency on a session-scoped
userPreferences
bean. Note that the UserPreferences
bean is instantiated using a
SpEL expression that retrieves the theme from the current HTTP session. In our test,
we will need to configure a theme in the mock session managed by the TestContext
framework.
<beans>
<bean id="userService"
class="com.example.SimpleUserService"
c:userPreferences-ref="userPreferences" />
<bean id="userPreferences"
class="com.example.UserPreferences"
c:theme="#{session.getAttribute('theme')}"
scope="session">
<aop:scoped-proxy />
</bean>
</beans>
In SessionScopedBeanTests
we inject the UserService
and the MockHttpSession
into
our test instance. Within our sessionScope()
test method we set up our test fixture by
setting the expected "theme" attribute in the provided MockHttpSession
. When the
processUserPreferences()
method is invoked on our userService
we are assured that
the user service has access to the session-scoped userPreferences
for the current
MockHttpSession
, and we can perform assertions against the results based on the
configured theme.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@WebAppConfiguration
public class SessionScopedBeanTests {
@Autowired UserService userService;
@Autowired MockHttpSession session;
@Test
public void sessionScope() throws Exception {
session.setAttribute("theme", "blue");
Results results = userService.processUserPreferences();
// assert results
}
}
In the TestContext framework, transactions are managed by the
TransactionalTestExecutionListener
which is configured by default, even if you do not
explicitly declare @TestExecutionListeners
on your test class. To enable support for
transactions, however, you must configure a PlatformTransactionManager
bean in the
ApplicationContext
that is loaded via @ContextConfiguration
semantics (further
details are provided below). In addition, you must declare Spring’s @Transactional
annotation either at the class or method level for your tests.
Test-managed transactions are transactions that are managed declaratively via the
TransactionalTestExecutionListener
or programmatically via TestTransaction
(see
below). Such transactions should not be confused with Spring-managed transactions
(i.e., those managed directly by Spring within the ApplicationContext
loaded for tests)
or application-managed transactions (i.e., those managed programmatically within
application code that is invoked via tests). Spring-managed and application-managed
transactions will typically participate in test-managed transactions; however, caution
should be taken if Spring-managed or application-managed transactions are configured with
any propagation type other than REQUIRED
or SUPPORTS
(see the discussion on
transaction propagation for details).
Annotating a test method with @Transactional
causes the test to be run within a
transaction that will, by default, be automatically rolled back after completion of the
test. If a test class is annotated with @Transactional
, each test method within that
class hierarchy will be run within a transaction. Test methods that are not annotated
with @Transactional
(at the class or method level) will not be run within a
transaction. Furthermore, tests that are annotated with @Transactional
but have the
propagation
type set to NOT_SUPPORTED
will not be run within a transaction.
Note that AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
and
AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
are preconfigured for transactional support at the class level.
The following example demonstrates a common scenario for writing an integration test for
a Hibernate-based UserRepository
. As explained in
トランザクションのロールバックとコミットの振る舞い, there is no need to clean up the
database after the createUser()
method is executed since any changes made to the
database will be automatically rolled back by the TransactionalTestExecutionListener
.
See PetClinicの例 for an additional example.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestConfig.class)
@Transactional
public class HibernateUserRepositoryTests {
@Autowired
HibernateUserRepository repository;
@Autowired
SessionFactory sessionFactory;
JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;
@Autowired
public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
this.jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
}
@Test
public void createUser() {
// track initial state in test database:
final int count = countRowsInTable("user");
User user = new User(...);
repository.save(user);
// Manual flush is required to avoid false positive in test
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().flush();
assertNumUsers(count + 1);
}
protected int countRowsInTable(String tableName) {
return JdbcTestUtils.countRowsInTable(this.jdbcTemplate, tableName);
}
protected void assertNumUsers(int expected) {
assertEquals("Number of rows in the [user] table.", expected, countRowsInTable("user"));
}
}
By default, test transactions will be automatically rolled back after completion of the
test; however, transactional commit and rollback behavior can be configured declaratively
via the @Commit
and @Rollback
annotations. See the corresponding entries in the
annotation support section for further details.
Since Spring Framework 4.1, it is possible to interact with test-managed transactions
programmatically via the static methods in TestTransaction
. For example,
TestTransaction
may be used within test methods, before methods, and after
methods to start or end the current test-managed transaction or to configure the current
test-managed transaction for rollback or commit. Support for TestTransaction
is
automatically available whenever the TransactionalTestExecutionListener
is enabled.
The following example demonstrates some of the features of TestTransaction
. Consult the
javadocs for TestTransaction
for further details.
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestConfig.class)
public class ProgrammaticTransactionManagementTests extends
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests {
@Test
public void transactionalTest() {
// assert initial state in test database:
assertNumUsers(2);
deleteFromTables("user");
// changes to the database will be committed!
TestTransaction.flagForCommit();
TestTransaction.end();
assertFalse(TestTransaction.isActive());
assertNumUsers(0);
TestTransaction.start();
// perform other actions against the database that will
// be automatically rolled back after the test completes...
}
protected void assertNumUsers(int expected) {
assertEquals("Number of rows in the [user] table.", expected, countRowsInTable("user"));
}
}
Occasionally you need to execute certain code before or after a transactional test method
but outside the transactional context — for example, to verify the initial database state
prior to execution of your test or to verify expected transactional commit behavior after
test execution (if the test was configured to commit the transaction).
TransactionalTestExecutionListener
supports the @BeforeTransaction
and
@AfterTransaction
annotations exactly for such scenarios. Simply annotate any void
method in a test class or any void
default method in a test interface with one of these
annotations, and the TransactionalTestExecutionListener
ensures that your before
transaction method or after transaction method is executed at the appropriate time.
Tip
|
Any before methods (such as methods annotated with JUnit 4’s |
TransactionalTestExecutionListener
expects a PlatformTransactionManager
bean to be
defined in the Spring ApplicationContext
for the test. In case there are multiple
instances of PlatformTransactionManager
within the test’s ApplicationContext
, a
qualifier may be declared via @Transactional("myTxMgr")
or
@Transactional(transactionManager = "myTxMgr")
, or TransactionManagementConfigurer
can be implemented by an @Configuration
class. Consult the javadocs for
TestContextTransactionUtils.retrieveTransactionManager()
for details on the algorithm
used to look up a transaction manager in the test’s ApplicationContext
.
The following JUnit 4 based example displays a fictitious integration testing scenario
highlighting all transaction-related annotations. The example is not intended to
demonstrate best practices but rather to demonstrate how these annotations can be used.
Consult the annotation support section for further
information and configuration examples. Transaction management for @Sql
contains an additional example using @Sql
for
declarative SQL script execution with default transaction rollback semantics.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@Transactional(transactionManager = "txMgr")
@Commit
public class FictitiousTransactionalTest {
@BeforeTransaction
void verifyInitialDatabaseState() {
// logic to verify the initial state before a transaction is started
}
@Before
public void setUpTestDataWithinTransaction() {
// set up test data within the transaction
}
@Test
// overrides the class-level @Commit setting
@Rollback
public void modifyDatabaseWithinTransaction() {
// logic which uses the test data and modifies database state
}
@After
public void tearDownWithinTransaction() {
// execute "tear down" logic within the transaction
}
@AfterTransaction
void verifyFinalDatabaseState() {
// logic to verify the final state after transaction has rolled back
}
}
Note
|
Avoid false positives when testing ORM code
When you test application code that manipulates the state of a Hibernate session or JPA persistence context, make sure to flush the underlying unit of work within test methods that execute that code. Failing to flush the underlying unit of work can produce false positives: your test may pass, but the same code throws an exception in a live, production environment. In the following Hibernate-based example test case, one method demonstrates a false positive, and the other method correctly exposes the results of flushing the session. Note that this applies to any ORM frameworks that maintain an in-memory unit of work. // ...
@Autowired
SessionFactory sessionFactory;
@Transactional
@Test // no expected exception!
public void falsePositive() {
updateEntityInHibernateSession();
// False positive: an exception will be thrown once the Hibernate
// Session is finally flushed (i.e., in production code)
}
@Transactional
@Test(expected = ...)
public void updateWithSessionFlush() {
updateEntityInHibernateSession();
// Manual flush is required to avoid false positive in test
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().flush();
}
// ... Or for JPA: // ...
@PersistenceContext
EntityManager entityManager;
@Transactional
@Test // no expected exception!
public void falsePositive() {
updateEntityInJpaPersistenceContext();
// False positive: an exception will be thrown once the JPA
// EntityManager is finally flushed (i.e., in production code)
}
@Transactional
@Test(expected = ...)
public void updateWithEntityManagerFlush() {
updateEntityInJpaPersistenceContext();
// Manual flush is required to avoid false positive in test
entityManager.flush();
}
// ... |
When writing integration tests against a relational database, it is often beneficial
to execute SQL scripts to modify the database schema or insert test data into tables.
The spring-jdbc
module provides support for initializing an embedded or existing
database by executing SQL scripts when the Spring ApplicationContext
is loaded. See
[jdbc-embedded-database-support] and [jdbc-embedded-database-dao-testing] for
details.
Although it is very useful to initialize a database for testing once when the
ApplicationContext
is loaded, sometimes it is essential to be able to modify the
database during integration tests. The following sections explain how to execute SQL
scripts programmatically and declaratively during integration tests.
Spring provides the following options for executing SQL scripts programmatically within integration test methods.
-
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.init.ScriptUtils
-
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.init.ResourceDatabasePopulator
-
org.springframework.test.context.junit4.AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
-
org.springframework.test.context.testng.AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
ScriptUtils
provides a collection of static utility methods for working with SQL scripts
and is mainly intended for internal use within the framework. However, if you require
full control over how SQL scripts are parsed and executed, ScriptUtils
may suit your
needs better than some of the other alternatives described below. Consult the javadocs for
individual methods in ScriptUtils
for further details.
ResourceDatabasePopulator
provides a simple object-based API for programmatically
populating, initializing, or cleaning up a database using SQL scripts defined in
external resources. ResourceDatabasePopulator
provides options for configuring the
character encoding, statement separator, comment delimiters, and error handling flags
used when parsing and executing the scripts, and each of the configuration options has
a reasonable default value. Consult the javadocs for details on default values. To
execute the scripts configured in a ResourceDatabasePopulator
, you can invoke either
the populate(Connection)
method to execute the populator against a
java.sql.Connection
or the execute(DataSource)
method to execute the populator
against a javax.sql.DataSource
. The following example specifies SQL scripts for a test
schema and test data, sets the statement separator to "@@"
, and then executes the
scripts against a DataSource
.
@Test
public void databaseTest {
ResourceDatabasePopulator populator = new ResourceDatabasePopulator();
populator.addScripts(
new ClassPathResource("test-schema.sql"),
new ClassPathResource("test-data.sql"));
populator.setSeparator("@@");
populator.execute(this.dataSource);
// execute code that uses the test schema and data
}
Note that ResourceDatabasePopulator
internally delegates to ScriptUtils
for parsing
and executing SQL scripts. Similarly, the executeSqlScript(..)
methods in
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
and
AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
internally use a ResourceDatabasePopulator
for executing SQL scripts. Consult the javadocs
for the various executeSqlScript(..)
methods for further details.
In addition to the aforementioned mechanisms for executing SQL scripts
programmatically, SQL scripts can also be configured declaratively in the Spring
TestContext Framework. Specifically, the @Sql
annotation can be declared on a test
class or test method to configure the resource paths to SQL scripts that should be
executed against a given database either before or after an integration test method. Note
that method-level declarations override class-level declarations and that support for
@Sql
is provided by the SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
which is enabled by default.
Path resource semantics
Each path will be interpreted as a Spring Resource
. A plain path — for example,
"schema.sql"
— will be treated as a classpath resource that is relative to the
package in which the test class is defined. A path starting with a slash will be treated
as an absolute classpath resource, for example: "/org/example/schema.sql"
. A path
which references a URL (e.g., a path prefixed with classpath:
, file:
, http:
, etc.)
will be loaded using the specified resource protocol.
The following example demonstrates how to use @Sql
at the class level and at the method
level within a JUnit 4 based integration test class.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@Sql("/test-schema.sql")
public class DatabaseTests {
@Test
public void emptySchemaTest {
// execute code that uses the test schema without any test data
}
@Test
@Sql({"/test-schema.sql", "/test-user-data.sql"})
public void userTest {
// execute code that uses the test schema and test data
}
}
Default script detection
If no SQL scripts are specified, an attempt will be made to detect a default
script
depending on where @Sql
is declared. If a default cannot be detected, an
IllegalStateException
will be thrown.
-
class-level declaration: if the annotated test class is
com.example.MyTest
, the corresponding default script is"classpath:com/example/MyTest.sql"
. -
method-level declaration: if the annotated test method is named
testMethod()
and is defined in the classcom.example.MyTest
, the corresponding default script is"classpath:com/example/MyTest.testMethod.sql"
.
Declaring multiple @Sql
sets
If multiple sets of SQL scripts need to be configured for a given test class or test
method but with different syntax configuration, different error handling rules, or
different execution phases per set, it is possible to declare multiple instances of
@Sql
. With Java 8, @Sql
can be used as a repeatable annotation. Otherwise, the
@SqlGroup
annotation can be used as an explicit container for declaring multiple
instances of @Sql
.
The following example demonstrates the use of @Sql
as a repeatable annotation using
Java 8. In this scenario the test-schema.sql
script uses a different syntax for
single-line comments.
@Test
@Sql(scripts = "/test-schema.sql", config = @SqlConfig(commentPrefix = "`"))
@Sql("/test-user-data.sql")
public void userTest {
// execute code that uses the test schema and test data
}
The following example is identical to the above except that the @Sql
declarations are
grouped together within @SqlGroup
for compatibility with Java 6 and Java 7.
@Test
@SqlGroup({
@Sql(scripts = "/test-schema.sql", config = @SqlConfig(commentPrefix = "`")),
@Sql("/test-user-data.sql")
)}
public void userTest {
// execute code that uses the test schema and test data
}
Script execution phases
By default, SQL scripts will be executed before the corresponding test method. However,
if a particular set of scripts needs to be executed after the test method — for
example, to clean up database state — the executionPhase
attribute in @Sql
can be
used as seen in the following example. Note that ISOLATED
and AFTER_TEST_METHOD
are
statically imported from Sql.TransactionMode
and Sql.ExecutionPhase
respectively.
@Test
@Sql(
scripts = "create-test-data.sql",
config = @SqlConfig(transactionMode = ISOLATED)
)
@Sql(
scripts = "delete-test-data.sql",
config = @SqlConfig(transactionMode = ISOLATED),
executionPhase = AFTER_TEST_METHOD
)
public void userTest {
// execute code that needs the test data to be committed
// to the database outside of the test's transaction
}
Script configuration with @SqlConfig
Configuration for script parsing and error handling can be configured via the
@SqlConfig
annotation. When declared as a class-level annotation on an integration test
class, @SqlConfig
serves as global configuration for all SQL scripts within the test
class hierarchy. When declared directly via the config
attribute of the @Sql
annotation, @SqlConfig
serves as local configuration for the SQL scripts declared
within the enclosing @Sql
annotation. Every attribute in @SqlConfig
has an implicit
default value which is documented in the javadocs of the corresponding attribute. Due to
the rules defined for annotation attributes in the Java Language Specification, it is
unfortunately not possible to assign a value of null
to an annotation attribute. Thus,
in order to support overrides of inherited global configuration, @SqlConfig
attributes
have an explicit default value of either ""
for Strings or DEFAULT
for Enums. This
approach allows local declarations of @SqlConfig
to selectively override individual
attributes from global declarations of @SqlConfig
by providing a value other than ""
or DEFAULT
. Global @SqlConfig
attributes are inherited whenever local @SqlConfig
attributes do not supply an explicit value other than ""
or DEFAULT
. Explicit local
configuration therefore overrides global configuration.
The configuration options provided by @Sql
and @SqlConfig
are equivalent to those
supported by ScriptUtils
and ResourceDatabasePopulator
but are a superset of those
provided by the <jdbc:initialize-database/>
XML namespace element. Consult the javadocs
of individual attributes in @Sql
and @SqlConfig
for details.
Transaction management for @Sql
By default, the SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
will infer the desired transaction
semantics for scripts configured via @Sql
. Specifically, SQL scripts will be executed
without a transaction, within an existing Spring-managed transaction — for example, a
transaction managed by the TransactionalTestExecutionListener
for a test annotated with
@Transactional
— or within an isolated transaction, depending on the configured value
of the transactionMode
attribute in @SqlConfig
and the presence of a
PlatformTransactionManager
in the test’s ApplicationContext
. As a bare minimum
however, a javax.sql.DataSource
must be present in the test’s ApplicationContext
.
If the algorithms used by SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
to detect a DataSource
and
PlatformTransactionManager
and infer the transaction semantics do not suit your needs,
you may specify explicit names via the dataSource
and transactionManager
attributes
of @SqlConfig
. Furthermore, the transaction propagation behavior can be controlled via
the transactionMode
attribute of @SqlConfig
— for example, if scripts should be
executed in an isolated transaction. Although a thorough discussion of all supported
options for transaction management with @Sql
is beyond the scope of this reference
manual, the javadocs for @SqlConfig
and SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener
provide
detailed information, and the following example demonstrates a typical testing scenario
using JUnit 4 and transactional tests with @Sql
. Note that there is no need to clean up
the database after the usersTest()
method is executed since any changes made to the
database (either within the test method or within the /test-data.sql
script) will
be automatically rolled back by the TransactionalTestExecutionListener
(see
transaction management for details).
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestDatabaseConfig.class)
@Transactional
public class TransactionalSqlScriptsTests {
protected JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;
@Autowired
public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
this.jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
}
@Test
@Sql("/test-data.sql")
public void usersTest() {
// verify state in test database:
assertNumUsers(2);
// execute code that uses the test data...
}
protected int countRowsInTable(String tableName) {
return JdbcTestUtils.countRowsInTable(this.jdbcTemplate, tableName);
}
protected void assertNumUsers(int expected) {
assertEquals("Number of rows in the [user] table.", expected, countRowsInTable("user"));
}
}
The Spring TestContext Framework offers full integration with JUnit 4 through a
custom runner (supported on JUnit 4.12 or higher). By annotating test classes with
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
or the shorter @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
variant, developers can implement standard JUnit 4 based unit and integration tests and
simultaneously reap the benefits of the TestContext framework such as support for loading
application contexts, dependency injection of test instances, transactional test method
execution, and so on. If you would like to use the Spring TestContext Framework with an
alternative runner such as JUnit 4’s Parameterized
or third-party runners such as the
MockitoJUnitRunner
, you may optionally use Spring’s support
for JUnit rules instead.
The following code listing displays the minimal requirements for configuring a test class
to run with the custom Spring Runner
. @TestExecutionListeners
is configured with an
empty list in order to disable the default listeners, which otherwise would require an
ApplicationContext
to be configured through @ContextConfiguration
.
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@TestExecutionListeners({})
public class SimpleTest {
@Test
public void testMethod() {
// execute test logic...
}
}
The org.springframework.test.context.junit4.rules
package provides the following JUnit
4 rules (supported on JUnit 4.12 or higher).
-
SpringClassRule
-
SpringMethodRule
SpringClassRule
is a JUnit TestRule
that supports class-level features of the
Spring TestContext Framework; whereas, SpringMethodRule
is a JUnit MethodRule
that
supports instance-level and method-level features of the Spring TestContext Framework.
In contrast to the SpringRunner
, Spring’s rule-based JUnit support has the advantage
that it is independent of any org.junit.runner.Runner
implementation and can therefore
be combined with existing alternative runners like JUnit 4’s Parameterized
or third-party
runners such as the MockitoJUnitRunner
.
In order to support the full functionality of the TestContext framework, a
SpringClassRule
must be combined with a SpringMethodRule
. The following example
demonstrates the proper way to declare these rules in an integration test.
// Optionally specify a non-Spring Runner via @RunWith(...)
@ContextConfiguration
public class IntegrationTest {
@ClassRule
public static final SpringClassRule springClassRule = new SpringClassRule();
@Rule
public final SpringMethodRule springMethodRule = new SpringMethodRule();
@Test
public void testMethod() {
// execute test logic...
}
}
The org.springframework.test.context.junit4
package provides the following support
classes for JUnit 4 based test cases (supported on JUnit 4.12 or higher).
-
AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests
-
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests
is an abstract base test class that integrates the
Spring TestContext Framework with explicit ApplicationContext
testing support in
a JUnit 4 environment. When you extend AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests
, you can
access a protected
applicationContext
instance variable that can be used to perform
explicit bean lookups or to test the state of the context as a whole.
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
is an abstract transactional extension
of AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests
that adds some convenience functionality for JDBC
access. This class expects a javax.sql.DataSource
bean and a PlatformTransactionManager
bean to be defined in the ApplicationContext
. When you extend
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
you can access a protected
jdbcTemplate
instance variable that can be used to execute SQL statements to query the database. Such
queries can be used to confirm database state both prior to and after execution of
database-related application code, and Spring ensures that such queries run in the scope of
the same transaction as the application code. When used in conjunction with an ORM tool,
be sure to avoid false positives. As mentioned in
JDBCテストのサポート, AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
also provides convenience methods which delegate to methods in JdbcTestUtils
using the
aforementioned jdbcTemplate
. Furthermore, AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
provides an executeSqlScript(..)
method for executing SQL scripts against the configured
DataSource
.
Tip
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These classes are a convenience for extension. If you do not want your test classes to be
tied to a Spring-specific class hierarchy, you can configure your own custom test classes
by using |
Spring Framework 5.0 offers full integration with the JUnit Jupiter testing framework introduced in JUnit 5. Developers are therefore encouraged to upgrade to Spring 5.x to benefit fully from Spring’s support for JUnit 5. However, if your project for some reason cannot yet upgrade to Spring 5.x, you may be interested in using the spring-test-junit5 project as a temporary solution to assist you in upgrading to JUnit 5 while still using Spring Framework 4.3.x.
The org.springframework.test.context.testng
package provides the following support
classes for TestNG based test cases.
-
AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests
-
AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests
is an abstract base test class that integrates the
Spring TestContext Framework with explicit ApplicationContext
testing support in
a TestNG environment. When you extend AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests
, you can
access a protected
applicationContext
instance variable that can be used to perform
explicit bean lookups or to test the state of the context as a whole.
AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
is an abstract transactional extension
of AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests
that adds some convenience functionality for JDBC
access. This class expects a javax.sql.DataSource
bean and a PlatformTransactionManager
bean to be defined in the ApplicationContext
. When you extend
AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
you can access a protected
jdbcTemplate
instance variable that can be used to execute SQL statements to query the database. Such
queries can be used to confirm database state both prior to and after execution of
database-related application code, and Spring ensures that such queries run in the scope of
the same transaction as the application code. When used in conjunction with an ORM tool,
be sure to avoid false positives. As mentioned in
JDBCテストのサポート, AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
also provides convenience methods which delegate to methods in JdbcTestUtils
using the
aforementioned jdbcTemplate
. Furthermore, AbstractTransactionalTestNGSpringContextTests
provides an executeSqlScript(..)
method for executing SQL scripts against the configured
DataSource
.
Tip
|
These classes are a convenience for extension. If you do not want your test classes to be
tied to a Spring-specific class hierarchy, you can configure your own custom test classes
by using |
The Spring MVC Test framework provides first class support for testing Spring MVC
code using a fluent API that can be used with JUnit, TestNG, or any other testing
framework. It’s built on the
{api-spring-framework}/mock/web/package-summary.html[Servlet API mock objects]
from the spring-test
module and hence does not use a running Servlet container. It
uses the DispatcherServlet
to provide full Spring MVC runtime behavior and provides support
for loading actual Spring configuration with the TestContext framework in addition to a
standalone mode in which controllers may be instantiated manually and tested one at a time.
Spring MVC Test also provides client-side support for testing code that uses
the RestTemplate
. Client-side tests mock the server responses and also do not
use a running server.
Tip
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Spring Boot provides an option to write full, end-to-end integration tests that include a running server. If this is your goal please have a look at the {doc-spring-boot}/html/boot-features-testing.html#boot-features-testing-spring-boot-applications[Spring Boot reference page]. For more information on the differences between out-of-container and end-to-end integration tests, see コンテナ外とエンドツーエンドの統合テストの違い. |
It’s easy to write a plain unit test for a Spring MVC controller using JUnit or TestNG:
simply instantiate the controller, inject it with mocked or stubbed dependencies, and call
its methods passing MockHttpServletRequest
, MockHttpServletResponse
, etc., as necessary.
However, when writing such a unit test, much remains untested: for example, request
mappings, data binding, type conversion, validation, and much more. Furthermore, other
controller methods such as @InitBinder
, @ModelAttribute
, and @ExceptionHandler
may
also be invoked as part of the request processing lifecycle.
The goal of Spring MVC Test is to provide an effective way for testing controllers
by performing requests and generating responses through the actual DispatcherServlet
.
Spring MVC Test builds on the familiar "mock" implementations
of the Servlet API available in the spring-test
module. This allows performing
requests and generating responses without the need for running in a Servlet container.
For the most part everything should work as it does at runtime with a few notable
exceptions as explained in コンテナ外とエンドツーエンドの統合テストの違い. Here is a
JUnit 4 based example of using Spring MVC Test:
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.*;
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.*;
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration("test-servlet-context.xml")
public class ExampleTests {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Before
public void setup() {
this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.wac).build();
}
@Test
public void getAccount() throws Exception {
this.mockMvc.perform(get("/accounts/1").accept(MediaType.parseMediaType("application/json;charset=UTF-8")))
.andExpect(status().isOk())
.andExpect(content().contentType("application/json"))
.andExpect(jsonPath("$.name").value("Lee"));
}
}
The above test relies on the WebApplicationContext
support of the TestContext framework
for loading Spring configuration from an XML configuration file located in the same package
as the test class, but Java-based and Groovy-based configuration are also supported. See these
sample tests.
The MockMvc
instance is used to perform a GET
request to "/accounts/1"
and verify
that the resulting response has status 200, the content type is "application/json"
, and the
response body has a JSON property called "name" with the value "Lee". The jsonPath
syntax is supported through the Jayway JsonPath
project. There are lots of other options for verifying the result of the performed
request that will be discussed below.
The fluent API in the example above requires a few static imports such as
MockMvcRequestBuilders.*
, MockMvcResultMatchers.*
,
and MockMvcBuilders.*
. An easy way to find these classes is to search for
types matching "MockMvc*". If using Eclipse, be sure to add them as
"favorite static members" in the Eclipse preferences under
Java → Editor → Content Assist → Favorites. That will allow use of content
assist after typing the first character of the static method name. Other IDEs (e.g.
IntelliJ) may not require any additional configuration. Just check the support for code
completion on static members.
There are two main options for creating an instance of MockMvc
.
The first is to load Spring MVC configuration through the TestContext
framework, which loads the Spring configuration and injects a WebApplicationContext
into the test to use to build a MockMvc
instance:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration("my-servlet-context.xml")
public class MyWebTests {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Before
public void setup() {
this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.wac).build();
}
// ...
}
The second is to simply create a controller instance manually without loading Spring configuration. Instead basic default configuration, roughly comparable to that of the MVC JavaConfig or the MVC namespace, is automatically created and can be customized to a degree:
public class MyWebTests {
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Before
public void setup() {
this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(new AccountController()).build();
}
// ...
}
Which setup option should you use?
The "webAppContextSetup" loads your actual Spring MVC configuration resulting in a more complete integration test. Since the TestContext framework caches the loaded Spring configuration, it helps keep tests running fast, even as you introduce more tests in your test suite. Furthermore, you can inject mock services into controllers through Spring configuration in order to remain focused on testing the web layer. Here is an example of declaring a mock service with Mockito:
<bean id="accountService" class="org.mockito.Mockito" factory-method="mock">
<constructor-arg value="org.example.AccountService"/>
</bean>
You can then inject the mock service into the test in order set up and verify expectations:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ContextConfiguration("test-servlet-context.xml")
public class AccountTests {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext wac;
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Autowired
private AccountService accountService;
// ...
}
The "standaloneSetup" on the other hand is a little closer to a unit test. It tests one controller at a time: the controller can be injected with mock dependencies manually, and it doesn’t involve loading Spring configuration. Such tests are more focused on style and make it easier to see which controller is being tested, whether any specific Spring MVC configuration is required to work, and so on. The "standaloneSetup" is also a very convenient way to write ad-hoc tests to verify specific behavior or to debug an issue.
Just like with any "integration vs. unit testing" debate, there is no right or wrong answer. However, using the "standaloneSetup" does imply the need for additional "webAppContextSetup" tests in order to verify your Spring MVC configuration. Alternatively, you may choose to write all tests with "webAppContextSetup" in order to always test against your actual Spring MVC configuration.
It’s easy to perform requests using any HTTP method:
mockMvc.perform(post("/hotels/{id}", 42).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
You can also perform file upload requests that internally use
MockMultipartHttpServletRequest
so that there is no actual parsing of a multipart
request but rather you have to set it up:
mockMvc.perform(fileUpload("/doc").file("a1", "ABC".getBytes("UTF-8")));
You can specify query parameters in URI template style:
mockMvc.perform(get("/hotels?foo={foo}", "bar"));
Or you can add Servlet request parameters representing either query of form parameters:
mockMvc.perform(get("/hotels").param("foo", "bar"));
If application code relies on Servlet request parameters and doesn’t check the query
string explicitly (as is most often the case) then it doesn’t matter which option you use.
Keep in mind however that query params provided with the URI template will be decoded while
request parameters provided through the param(…)
method are expected to already be decoded.
In most cases it’s preferable to leave out the context path and the Servlet path from
the request URI. If you must test with the full request URI, be sure to set the
contextPath
and servletPath
accordingly so that request mappings will work:
mockMvc.perform(get("/app/main/hotels/{id}").contextPath("/app").servletPath("/main"))
Looking at the above example, it would be cumbersome to set the contextPath and servletPath with every performed request. Instead you can set up default request properties:
public class MyWebTests {
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Before
public void setup() {
mockMvc = standaloneSetup(new AccountController())
.defaultRequest(get("/")
.contextPath("/app").servletPath("/main")
.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).build();
}
The above properties will affect every request performed through the MockMvc
instance.
If the same property is also specified on a given request, it overrides the default value.
That is why the HTTP method and URI in the default request don’t matter since they must be
specified on every request.
Expectations can be defined by appending one or more .andExpect(..)
calls after
performing a request:
mockMvc.perform(get("/accounts/1")).andExpect(status().isOk());
MockMvcResultMatchers.*
provides a number of expectations, some of which are further
nested with more detailed expectations.
Expectations fall in two general categories. The first category of assertions verifies properties of the response: for example, the response status, headers, and content. These are the most important results to assert.
The second category of assertions goes beyond the response. These assertions allow one to inspect Spring MVC specific aspects such as which controller method processed the request, whether an exception was raised and handled, what the content of the model is, what view was selected, what flash attributes were added, and so on. They also allow one to inspect Servlet specific aspects such as request and session attributes.
The following test asserts that binding or validation failed:
mockMvc.perform(post("/persons"))
.andExpect(status().isOk())
.andExpect(model().attributeHasErrors("person"));
Many times when writing tests, it’s useful to dump the results of the performed request.
This can be done as follows, where print()
is a static import from
MockMvcResultHandlers
:
mockMvc.perform(post("/persons"))
.andDo(print())
.andExpect(status().isOk())
.andExpect(model().attributeHasErrors("person"));
As long as request processing does not cause an unhandled exception, the print()
method
will print all the available result data to System.out
. Spring Framework 4.2 introduced
a log()
method and two additional variants of the print()
method, one that accepts
an OutputStream
and one that accepts a Writer
. For example, invoking
print(System.err)
will print the result data to System.err
; while invoking
print(myWriter)
will print the result data to a custom writer. If you would like to
have the result data logged instead of printed, simply invoke the log()
method which
will log the result data as a single DEBUG
message under the
org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result
logging category.
In some cases, you may want to get direct access to the result and verify something that
cannot be verified otherwise. This can be achieved by appending .andReturn()
after all
other expectations:
MvcResult mvcResult = mockMvc.perform(post("/persons")).andExpect(status().isOk()).andReturn();
// ...
If all tests repeat the same expectations you can set up common expectations once
when building the MockMvc
instance:
standaloneSetup(new SimpleController())
.alwaysExpect(status().isOk())
.alwaysExpect(content().contentType("application/json;charset=UTF-8"))
.build()
Note that common expectations are always applied and cannot be overridden without
creating a separate MockMvc
instance.
When JSON response content contains hypermedia links created with Spring HATEOAS, the resulting links can be verified using JsonPath expressions:
mockMvc.perform(get("/people").accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
.andExpect(jsonPath("$.links[?(@.rel == 'self')].href").value("http://localhost:8080/people"));
When XML response content contains hypermedia links created with Spring HATEOAS, the resulting links can be verified using XPath expressions:
Map<String, String> ns = Collections.singletonMap("ns", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
mockMvc.perform(get("/handle").accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML))
.andExpect(xpath("/person/ns:link[@rel='self']/@href", ns).string("http://localhost:8080/people"));
When setting up a MockMvc
instance, you can register one or more Servlet Filter
instances:
mockMvc = standaloneSetup(new PersonController()).addFilters(new CharacterEncodingFilter()).build();
Registered filters will be invoked through via the MockFilterChain
from spring-test
, and the
last filter will delegate to the DispatcherServlet
.
As mentioned earlier Spring MVC Test is built on the Servlet API mock objects from
the spring-test
module and does not use a running Servlet container. Therefore
there are some important differences compared to full end-to-end integration tests
with an actual client and server running.
The easiest way to think about this is starting with a blank MockHttpServletRequest
.
Whatever you add to it is what the request will be. Things that may catch you by surprise
are that there is no context path by default, no jsessionid
cookie, no forwarding, error,
or async dispatches, and therefore no actual JSP rendering. Instead, "forwarded" and
"redirected" URLs are saved in the MockHttpServletResponse
and can be asserted with
expectations.
This means if you are using JSPs you can verify the JSP page to which the request was
forwarded, but there won’t be any HTML rendered. In other words, the JSP will not be
invoked. Note however that all other rendering technologies which don’t rely on
forwarding such as Thymeleaf, Freemarker, and Velocity will render HTML to the response
body as expected. The same is true for rendering JSON, XML, and other formats via
@ResponseBody
methods.
Alternatively you may consider the full end-to-end integration testing support from
Spring Boot via @WebIntegrationTest
. See the
{doc-spring-boot}/html/boot-features-testing.html#boot-features-testing-spring-boot-applications[Spring Boot reference].
There are pros and cons for each approach. The options provided in Spring MVC Test
are different stops on the scale from classic unit testing to full integration testing.
To be certain, none of the options in Spring MVC Test fall under the category of classic
unit testing, but they are a little closer to it. For example, you can isolate the web
layer by injecting mocked services into controllers, in which case you’re testing the web
layer only through the DispatcherServlet
but with actual Spring configuration, just
like you might test the data access layer in isolation from the layers above. Or you
can use the standalone setup focusing on one controller at a time and manually providing
the configuration required to make it work.
Another important distinction when using Spring MVC Test is that conceptually such tests are on the inside of the server-side so you can check what handler was used, if an exception was handled with a HandlerExceptionResolver, what the content of the model is, what binding errors there were, etc. That means it’s easier to write expectations since the server is not a black box as it is when testing it through an actual HTTP client. This is generally an advantage of classic unit testing, that it’s easier to write, reason about, and debug but does not replace the need for full integration tests. At the same time it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that the response is the most important thing to check. In short, there is room here for multiple styles and strategies of testing even within the same project.
The framework’s own tests include many sample tests intended to demonstrate how to use Spring MVC Test. Browse these examples for further ideas. Also the spring-mvc-showcase has full test coverage based on Spring MVC Test.
Spring provides integration between MockMvc and HtmlUnit. This simplifies performing end-to-end testing when using HTML based views. This integration enables developers to:
Note
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The most obvious question that comes to mind is, "Why do I need this?". The answer is best
found by exploring a very basic sample application. Assume you have a Spring MVC web
application that supports CRUD operations on a Message
object. The application also supports
paging through all messages. How would you go about testing it?
With Spring MVC Test, we can easily test if we are able to create a Message
.
MockHttpServletRequestBuilder createMessage = post("/messages/")
.param("summary", "Spring Rocks")
.param("text", "In case you didn't know, Spring Rocks!");
mockMvc.perform(createMessage)
.andExpect(status().is3xxRedirection())
.andExpect(redirectedUrl("/messages/123"));
What if we want to test our form view that allows us to create the message? For example, assume our form looks like the following snippet:
<form id="messageForm" action="/messages/" method="post">
<div class="pull-right"><a href="/messages/">Messages</a></div>
<label for="summary">Summary</label>
<input type="text" class="required" id="summary" name="summary" value="" />
<label for="text">Message</label>
<textarea id="text" name="text"></textarea>
<div class="form-actions">
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
</div>
</form>
How do we ensure that our form will produce the correct request to create a new message? A naive attempt would look like this:
mockMvc.perform(get("/messages/form"))
.andExpect(xpath("//input[@name='summary']").exists())
.andExpect(xpath("//textarea[@name='text']").exists());
This test has some obvious drawbacks. If we update our controller to use the parameter
message
instead of text
, our form test would continue to pass even though the HTML
form is out of synch with the controller. To resolve this we can combine our two tests.
String summaryParamName = "summary";
String textParamName = "text";
mockMvc.perform(get("/messages/form"))
.andExpect(xpath("//input[@name='" + summaryParamName + "']").exists())
.andExpect(xpath("//textarea[@name='" + textParamName + "']").exists());
MockHttpServletRequestBuilder createMessage = post("/messages/")
.param(summaryParamName, "Spring Rocks")
.param(textParamName, "In case you didn't know, Spring Rocks!");
mockMvc.perform(createMessage)
.andExpect(status().is3xxRedirection())
.andExpect(redirectedUrl("/messages/123"));
This would reduce the risk of our test incorrectly passing, but there are still some problems.
-
What if we have multiple forms on our page? Admittedly we could update our xpath expressions, but they get more complicated the more factors we take into account (Are the fields the correct type? Are the fields enabled? etc.).
-
Another issue is that we are doing double the work we would expect. We must first verify the view, and then we submit the view with the same parameters we just verified. Ideally this could be done all at once.
-
Finally, there are some things that we still cannot account for. For example, what if the form has JavaScript validation that we wish to test as well?
The overall problem is that testing a web page does not involve a single interaction. Instead, it is a combination of how the user interacts with a web page and how that web page interacts with other resources. For example, the result of a form view is used as the input to a user for creating a message. In addition, our form view may potentially utilize additional resources which impact the behavior of the page, such as JavaScript validation.
To resolve the issues above we could perform end-to-end integration testing, but this has some obvious drawbacks. Consider testing the view that allows us to page through the messages. We might need the following tests.
-
Does our page display a notification to the user indicating that no results are available when the messages are empty?
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Does our page properly display a single message?
-
Does our page properly support paging?
To set up these tests, we would need to ensure our database contained the proper messages in it. This leads to a number of additional challenges.
-
Ensuring the proper messages are in the database can be tedious; consider foreign key constraints.
-
Testing can become slow since each test would need to ensure that the database is in the correct state.
-
Since our database needs to be in a specific state, we cannot run tests in parallel.
-
Performing assertions on things like auto-generated ids, timestamps, etc. can be difficult.
These challenges do not mean that we should abandon end-to-end integration testing altogether. Instead, we can reduce the number of end-to-end integration tests by refactoring our detailed tests to use mock services which will execute much faster, more reliably, and without side effects. We can then implement a small number of true end-to-end integration tests that validate simple workflows to ensure that everything works together properly.
So how can we achieve a balance between testing the interactions of our pages and still retain good performance within our test suite? The answer is: "By integrating MockMvc with HtmlUnit."
There are a number of ways to integrate MockMvc
with HtmlUnit.
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MockMvc and HtmlUnit: Use this option if you want to use the raw HtmlUnit libraries.
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MockMvc and WebDriver: Use this option to ease development and reuse code between integration and end-to-end testing.
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MockMvc and Geb: Use this option if you would like to use Groovy for testing, ease development, and reuse code between integration and end-to-end testing.
This section describes how to integrate MockMvc
and HtmlUnit. Use this option if you
want to use the raw HtmlUnit libraries.
First, make sure that you have included a test dependency on net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit
.
In order to use HtmlUnit with Apache HttpComponents 4.5+, you will need to use HtmlUnit
2.18 or higher.
We can easily create an HtmlUnit WebClient
that integrates with MockMvc
using the
MockMvcWebClientBuilder
as follows.
@Autowired
WebApplicationContext context;
WebClient webClient;
@Before
public void setup() {
webClient = MockMvcWebClientBuilder
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.build();
}
Note
|
This is a simple example of using |
This will ensure that any URL referencing localhost
as the server will be directed to
our MockMvc
instance without the need for a real HTTP connection. Any other URL will be
requested using a network connection as normal. This allows us to easily test the use of
CDNs.
Now we can use HtmlUnit as we normally would, but without the need to deploy our application to a Servlet container. For example, we can request the view to create a message with the following.
HtmlPage createMsgFormPage = webClient.getPage("http://localhost/messages/form");
Note
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The default context path is |
Once we have a reference to the HtmlPage
, we can then fill out the form and submit
it to create a message.
HtmlForm form = createMsgFormPage.getHtmlElementById("messageForm");
HtmlTextInput summaryInput = createMsgFormPage.getHtmlElementById("summary");
summaryInput.setValueAttribute("Spring Rocks");
HtmlTextArea textInput = createMsgFormPage.getHtmlElementById("text");
textInput.setText("In case you didn't know, Spring Rocks!");
HtmlSubmitInput submit = form.getOneHtmlElementByAttribute("input", "type", "submit");
HtmlPage newMessagePage = submit.click();
Finally, we can verify that a new message was created successfully. The following assertions use the AssertJ library.
assertThat(newMessagePage.getUrl().toString()).endsWith("/messages/123");
String id = newMessagePage.getHtmlElementById("id").getTextContent();
assertThat(id).isEqualTo("123");
String summary = newMessagePage.getHtmlElementById("summary").getTextContent();
assertThat(summary).isEqualTo("Spring Rocks");
String text = newMessagePage.getHtmlElementById("text").getTextContent();
assertThat(text).isEqualTo("In case you didn't know, Spring Rocks!");
This improves on our MockMvc test in a number of ways. First we no longer have to explicitly verify our form and then create a request that looks like the form. Instead, we request the form, fill it out, and submit it, thereby significantly reducing the overhead.
Another important factor is that HtmlUnit uses the Mozilla Rhino engine to evaluate JavaScript. This means that we can test the behavior of JavaScript within our pages as well!
Refer to the HtmlUnit documentation for additional information about using HtmlUnit.
In the examples so far, we have used MockMvcWebClientBuilder
in the simplest way possible,
by building a WebClient
based on the WebApplicationContext
loaded for us by the Spring
TestContext Framework. This approach is repeated here.
@Autowired
WebApplicationContext context;
WebClient webClient;
@Before
public void setup() {
webClient = MockMvcWebClientBuilder
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.build();
}
We can also specify additional configuration options.
WebClient webClient;
@Before
public void setup() {
webClient = MockMvcWebClientBuilder
// demonstrates applying a MockMvcConfigurer (Spring Security)
.webAppContextSetup(context, springSecurity())
// for illustration only - defaults to ""
.contextPath("")
// By default MockMvc is used for localhost only;
// the following will use MockMvc for example.com and example.org as well
.useMockMvcForHosts("example.com","example.org")
.build();
}
As an alternative, we can perform the exact same setup by configuring the MockMvc
instance separately and supplying it to the MockMvcWebClientBuilder
as follows.
MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.apply(springSecurity())
.build();
webClient = MockMvcWebClientBuilder
.mockMvcSetup(mockMvc)
// for illustration only - defaults to ""
.contextPath("")
// By default MockMvc is used for localhost only;
// the following will use MockMvc for example.com and example.org as well
.useMockMvcForHosts("example.com","example.org")
.build();
This is more verbose, but by building the WebClient
with a MockMvc
instance we have
the full power of MockMvc
at our fingertips.
Tip
|
For additional information on creating a |
In the previous sections, we have seen how to use MockMvc
in conjunction with the raw
HtmlUnit APIs. In this section, we will leverage additional abstractions within the Selenium
WebDriver to make things even easier.
We can already use HtmlUnit and MockMvc
, so why would we want to use WebDriver
? The
Selenium WebDriver
provides a very elegant API that allows us to easily organize our code.
To better understand, let’s explore an example.
Note
|
Despite being a part of Selenium, WebDriver does not require a Selenium Server to run your tests. |
Suppose we need to ensure that a message is created properly. The tests involve finding the HTML form input elements, filling them out, and making various assertions.
This approach results in numerous, separate tests because we want to test error conditions as well. For example, we want to ensure that we get an error if we fill out only part of the form. If we fill out the entire form, the newly created message should be displayed afterwards.
If one of the fields were named "summary", then we might have something like the following repeated in multiple places within our tests.
HtmlTextInput summaryInput = currentPage.getHtmlElementById("summary");
summaryInput.setValueAttribute(summary);
So what happens if we change the id
to "smmry"? Doing so would force us to update all
of our tests to incorporate this change! Of course, this violates the DRY Principle; so
we should ideally extract this code into its own method as follows.
public HtmlPage createMessage(HtmlPage currentPage, String summary, String text) {
setSummary(currentPage, summary);
// ...
}
public void setSummary(HtmlPage currentPage, String summary) {
HtmlTextInput summaryInput = currentPage.getHtmlElementById("summary");
summaryInput.setValueAttribute(summary);
}
This ensures that we do not have to update all of our tests if we change the UI.
We might even take this a step further and place this logic within an Object that
represents the HtmlPage
we are currently on.
public class CreateMessagePage {
final HtmlPage currentPage;
final HtmlTextInput summaryInput;
final HtmlSubmitInput submit;
public CreateMessagePage(HtmlPage currentPage) {
this.currentPage = currentPage;
this.summaryInput = currentPage.getHtmlElementById("summary");
this.submit = currentPage.getHtmlElementById("submit");
}
public <T> T createMessage(String summary, String text) throws Exception {
setSummary(summary);
HtmlPage result = submit.click();
boolean error = CreateMessagePage.at(result);
return (T) (error ? new CreateMessagePage(result) : new ViewMessagePage(result));
}
public void setSummary(String summary) throws Exception {
summaryInput.setValueAttribute(summary);
}
public static boolean at(HtmlPage page) {
return "Create Message".equals(page.getTitleText());
}
}
Formerly, this pattern is known as the Page Object Pattern. While we can certainly do this with HtmlUnit, WebDriver provides some tools that we will explore in the following sections to make this pattern much easier to implement.
To use Selenium WebDriver with the Spring MVC Test framework, make sure that your project
includes a test dependency on org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver
.
We can easily create a Selenium WebDriver
that integrates with MockMvc
using the
MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
as follows.
@Autowired
WebApplicationContext context;
WebDriver driver;
@Before
public void setup() {
driver = MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.build();
}
Note
|
This is a simple example of using |
This will ensure that any URL referencing localhost
as the server will be directed to
our MockMvc
instance without the need for a real HTTP connection. Any other URL will be
requested using a network connection as normal. This allows us to easily test the use of
CDNs.
Now we can use WebDriver as we normally would, but without the need to deploy our application to a Servlet container. For example, we can request the view to create a message with the following.
CreateMessagePage page = CreateMessagePage.to(driver);
We can then fill out the form and submit it to create a message.
ViewMessagePage viewMessagePage =
page.createMessage(ViewMessagePage.class, expectedSummary, expectedText);
This improves on the design of our
HtmlUnit test by leveraging the Page Object
Pattern. As we mentioned in なぜWebDriverとMockMvcなのか?, we can
use the Page Object Pattern with HtmlUnit, but it is much easier with WebDriver. Let’s
take a look at our new CreateMessagePage
implementation.
public class CreateMessagePage
extends AbstractPage { // (1)
// (2)
private WebElement summary;
private WebElement text;
// (3)
@FindBy(css = "input[type=submit]")
private WebElement submit;
public CreateMessagePage(WebDriver driver) {
super(driver);
}
public <T> T createMessage(Class<T> resultPage, String summary, String details) {
this.summary.sendKeys(summary);
this.text.sendKeys(details);
this.submit.click();
return PageFactory.initElements(driver, resultPage);
}
public static CreateMessagePage to(WebDriver driver) {
driver.get("http://localhost:9990/mail/messages/form");
return PageFactory.initElements(driver, CreateMessagePage.class);
}
}
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The first thing you will notice is that
CreateMessagePage
extends theAbstractPage
. We won’t go over the details ofAbstractPage
, but in summary it contains common functionality for all of our pages. For example, if our application has a navigational bar, global error messages, etc., this logic can be placed in a shared location. -
The next thing you will notice is that we have a member variable for each of the parts of the HTML page that we are interested in. These are of type
WebElement
.WebDriver
's PageFactory allows us to remove a lot of code from the HtmlUnit version ofCreateMessagePage
by automatically resolving eachWebElement
. The PageFactory#initElements(WebDriver,Class<T>) method will automatically resolve eachWebElement
by using the field name and looking it up by theid
orname
of the element within the HTML page. -
We can use the @FindBy annotation to override the default lookup behavior. Our example demonstrates how to use the
@FindBy
annotation to look up our submit button using a css selector, input[type=submit].
Finally, we can verify that a new message was created successfully. The following assertions use the FEST assertion library.
assertThat(viewMessagePage.getMessage()).isEqualTo(expectedMessage);
assertThat(viewMessagePage.getSuccess()).isEqualTo("Successfully created a new message");
We can see that our ViewMessagePage
allows us to interact with our custom domain
model. For example, it exposes a method that returns a Message
object.
public Message getMessage() throws ParseException {
Message message = new Message();
message.setId(getId());
message.setCreated(getCreated());
message.setSummary(getSummary());
message.setText(getText());
return message;
}
We can then leverage the rich domain objects in our assertions.
Lastly, don’t forget to close the WebDriver
instance when the test is complete.
@After
public void destroy() {
if (driver != null) {
driver.close();
}
}
For additional information on using WebDriver, refer to the Selenium WebDriver documentation.
In the examples so far, we have used MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
in the simplest way
possible, by building a WebDriver
based on the WebApplicationContext
loaded for us by
the Spring TestContext Framework. This approach is repeated here.
@Autowired
WebApplicationContext context;
WebDriver driver;
@Before
public void setup() {
driver = MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.build();
}
We can also specify additional configuration options.
WebDriver driver;
@Before
public void setup() {
driver = MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
// demonstrates applying a MockMvcConfigurer (Spring Security)
.webAppContextSetup(context, springSecurity())
// for illustration only - defaults to ""
.contextPath("")
// By default MockMvc is used for localhost only;
// the following will use MockMvc for example.com and example.org as well
.useMockMvcForHosts("example.com","example.org")
.build();
}
As an alternative, we can perform the exact same setup by configuring the MockMvc
instance separately and supplying it to the MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
as follows.
MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.apply(springSecurity())
.build();
driver = MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
.mockMvcSetup(mockMvc)
// for illustration only - defaults to ""
.contextPath("")
// By default MockMvc is used for localhost only;
// the following will use MockMvc for example.com and example.org as well
.useMockMvcForHosts("example.com","example.org")
.build();
This is more verbose, but by building the WebDriver
with a MockMvc
instance we have
the full power of MockMvc
at our fingertips.
Tip
|
For additional information on creating a |
In the previous section, we saw how to use MockMvc
with WebDriver
. In this section,
we will use Geb to make our tests even Groovy-er.
Geb is backed by WebDriver, so it offers many of the same benefits that we get from WebDriver. However, Geb makes things even easier by taking care of some of the boilerplate code for us.
We can easily initialize a Geb Browser
with a Selenium WebDriver
that uses MockMvc
as follows.
def setup() {
browser.driver = MockMvcHtmlUnitDriverBuilder
.webAppContextSetup(context)
.build()
}
Note
|
This is a simple example of using |
This will ensure that any URL referencing localhost
as the server will be directed to
our MockMvc
instance without the need for a real HTTP connection. Any other URL will be
requested using a network connection as normal. This allows us to easily test the use of
CDNs.
Now we can use Geb as we normally would, but without the need to deploy our application to a Servlet container. For example, we can request the view to create a message with the following:
to CreateMessagePage
We can then fill out the form and submit it to create a message.
when:
form.summary = expectedSummary
form.text = expectedMessage
submit.click(ViewMessagePage)
Any unrecognized method calls or property accesses/references that are not found will be forwarded to the current page object. This removes a lot of the boilerplate code we needed when using WebDriver directly.
As with direct WebDriver usage, this improves on the design of our
HtmlUnit test by leveraging the Page Object
Pattern. As mentioned previously, we can use the Page Object Pattern with HtmlUnit and
WebDriver, but it is even easier with Geb. Let’s take a look at our new Groovy-based
CreateMessagePage
implementation.
class CreateMessagePage extends Page {
static url = 'messages/form'
static at = { assert title == 'Messages : Create'; true }
static content = {
submit { $('input[type=submit]') }
form { $('form') }
errors(required:false) { $('label.error, .alert-error')?.text() }
}
}
The first thing you will notice is that our CreateMessagePage
extends Page
. We won’t
go over the details of Page
, but in summary it contains common functionality for all of
our pages. The next thing you will notice is that we define a URL in which this page can
be found. This allows us to navigate to the page as follows.
to CreateMessagePage
We also have an at
closure that determines if we are at the specified page. It should return
true
if we are on the correct page. This is why we can assert that we are on the correct
page as follows.
then:
at CreateMessagePage
errors.contains('This field is required.')
Note
|
We use an assertion in the closure, so that we can determine where things went wrong if we were at the wrong page. |
Next we create a content
closure that specifies all the areas of interest within the page.
We can use a
jQuery-ish Navigator API
to select the content we are interested in.
Finally, we can verify that a new message was created successfully.
then:
at ViewMessagePage
success == 'Successfully created a new message'
id
date
summary == expectedSummary
message == expectedMessage
For further details on how to get the most out of Geb, consult The Book of Geb user’s manual.
Client-side tests can be used to test code that internally uses the RestTemplate
.
The idea is to declare expected requests and to provide "stub" responses so that
you can focus on testing the code in isolation, i.e. without running a server.
Here is an example:
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
MockRestServiceServer mockServer = MockRestServiceServer.bindTo(restTemplate).build();
mockServer.expect(requestTo("/greeting")).andRespond(withSuccess());
// Test code that uses the above RestTemplate ...
mockServer.verify();
In the above example, MockRestServiceServer
, the central class for client-side REST
tests, configures the RestTemplate
with a custom ClientHttpRequestFactory
that
asserts actual requests against expectations and returns "stub" responses. In this case
we expect a request to "/greeting" and want to return a 200 response with
"text/plain" content. We could define as additional expected requests and stub responses as
needed. When expected requests and stub responses are defined, the RestTemplate
can be
used in client-side code as usual. At the end of testing mockServer.verify()
can be
used to verify that all expectations have been satisfied.
By default requests are expected in the order in which expectations were declared.
You can set the ignoreExpectOrder
option when building the server in which case
all expectations are checked (in order) to find a match for a given request. That
means requests are allowed to come in any order. Here is an example:
server = MockRestServiceServer.bindTo(restTemplate).ignoreExpectOrder(true).build();
Even with unordered requests by default each request is allowed to execute once only.
The expect
method provides an overloaded variant that accepts an ExpectedCount
argument that specifies a count range, e.g. once
, manyTimes
, max
, min
,
between
, and so on. Here is an example:
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
MockRestServiceServer mockServer = MockRestServiceServer.bindTo(restTemplate).build();
mockServer.expect(times(2), requestTo("/foo")).andRespond(withSuccess());
mockServer.expect(times(3), requestTo("/bar")).andRespond(withSuccess());
// ...
mockServer.verify();
Note that when ignoreExpectOrder
is not set (the default), and therefore requests
are expected in order of declaration, then that order only applies to the first of
any expected request. For example if "/foo" is expected 2 times followed by "/bar"
3 times, then there should be a request to "/foo" before there is a request to "/bar"
but aside from that subsequent "/foo" and "/bar" requests can come at any time.
As an alternative to all of the above the client-side test support also provides a
ClientHttpRequestFactory
implementation that can be configured into a RestTemplate
to bind it to a MockMvc
instance. That allows processing requests using actual
server-side logic but without running a server. Here is an example:
MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.wac).build();
this.restTemplate = new RestTemplate(new MockMvcClientHttpRequestFactory(mockMvc));
// Test code that uses the above RestTemplate ...
mockServer.verify();
Just like with server-side tests, the fluent API for client-side tests requires a few
static imports. Those are easy to find by searching "MockRest*". Eclipse users
should add "MockRestRequestMatchers.*"
and "MockRestResponseCreators.*"
as "favorite static members" in the Eclipse preferences under
Java → Editor → Content Assist → Favorites.
That allows using content assist after typing the first character of the
static method name. Other IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ) may not require any additional
configuration. Just check the support for code completion on static members.
Spring MVC Test’s own tests include example tests of client-side REST tests.
The PetClinic application, available on
GitHub, illustrates several features
of the Spring TestContext Framework in a JUnit 4 environment. Most test functionality
is included in the AbstractClinicTests
, for which a partial listing is shown below:
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
// import ...
@ContextConfiguration
public abstract class AbstractClinicTests extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests {
@Autowired
protected Clinic clinic;
@Test
public void getVets() {
Collection<Vet> vets = this.clinic.getVets();
assertEquals("JDBC query must show the same number of vets",
super.countRowsInTable("VETS"), vets.size());
Vet v1 = EntityUtils.getById(vets, Vet.class, 2);
assertEquals("Leary", v1.getLastName());
assertEquals(1, v1.getNrOfSpecialties());
assertEquals("radiology", (v1.getSpecialties().get(0)).getName());
// ...
}
// ...
}
Notes:
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This test case extends the
AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
class, from which it inherits configuration for Dependency Injection (through theDependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener
) and transactional behavior (through theTransactionalTestExecutionListener
). -
The
clinic
instance variable — the application object being tested — is set by Dependency Injection through@Autowired
semantics. -
The
getVets()
method illustrates how you can use the inheritedcountRowsInTable()
method to easily verify the number of rows in a given table, thus verifying correct behavior of the application code being tested. This allows for stronger tests and lessens dependency on the exact test data. For example, you can add additional rows in the database without breaking tests. -
Like many integration tests that use a database, most of the tests in
AbstractClinicTests
depend on a minimum amount of data already in the database before the test cases run. Alternatively, you might choose to populate the database within the test fixture set up of your test cases — again, within the same transaction as the tests.
The PetClinic application supports three data access technologies: JDBC, Hibernate, and
JPA. By declaring @ContextConfiguration
without any specific resource locations, the
AbstractClinicTests
class will have its application context loaded from the default
location, AbstractClinicTests-context.xml
, which declares a common DataSource
.
Subclasses specify additional context locations that must declare a
PlatformTransactionManager
and a concrete implementation of Clinic
.
For example, the Hibernate implementation of the PetClinic tests contains the following
implementation. For this example, HibernateClinicTests
does not contain a single line
of code: we only need to declare @ContextConfiguration
, and the tests are inherited
from AbstractClinicTests
. Because @ContextConfiguration
is declared without any
specific resource locations, the Spring TestContext Framework loads an application
context from all the beans defined in AbstractClinicTests-context.xml
(i.e., the
inherited locations) and HibernateClinicTests-context.xml
, with
HibernateClinicTests-context.xml
possibly overriding beans defined in
AbstractClinicTests-context.xml
.
@ContextConfiguration
public class HibernateClinicTests extends AbstractClinicTests { }
In a large-scale application, the Spring configuration is often split across multiple
files. Consequently, configuration locations are typically specified in a common base
class for all application-specific integration tests. Such a base class may also add
useful instance variables — populated by Dependency Injection, naturally — such as a
SessionFactory
in the case of an application using Hibernate.
As far as possible, you should have exactly the same Spring configuration files in your
integration tests as in the deployed environment. One likely point of difference
concerns database connection pooling and transaction infrastructure. If you are
deploying to a full-blown application server, you will probably use its connection pool
(available through JNDI) and JTA implementation. Thus in production you will use a
JndiObjectFactoryBean
or <jee:jndi-lookup>
for the DataSource
and
JtaTransactionManager
. JNDI and JTA will not be available in out-of-container
integration tests, so you should use a combination like the Commons DBCP
BasicDataSource
and DataSourceTransactionManager
or HibernateTransactionManager
for them. You can factor out this variant behavior into a single XML file, having the
choice between application server and a 'local' configuration separated from all other
configuration, which will not vary between the test and production environments. In
addition, it is advisable to use properties files for connection settings. See the
PetClinic application for an example.
Consult the following resources for more information about testing:
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JUnit: "A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java". Used by the Spring Framework in its test suite.
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TestNG: A testing framework inspired by JUnit with added support for annotations, test groups, data-driven testing, distributed testing, etc.
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AssertJ: "Fluent assertions for Java" including support for Java 8 lambdas, streams, etc.
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Mock Objects: Article in Wikipedia.
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MockObjects.com: Web site dedicated to mock objects, a technique for improving the design of code within test-driven development.
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EasyMock: Java library "that provides Mock Objects for interfaces (and objects through the class extension) by generating them on the fly using Java’s proxy mechanism." Used by the Spring Framework in its test suite.
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JMock: Library that supports test-driven development of Java code with mock objects.
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DbUnit: JUnit extension (also usable with Ant and Maven) targeted for database-driven projects that, among other things, puts your database into a known state between test runs.
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The Grinder: Java load testing framework.