Mockito for Spring

Sujoy Acharya

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781783983780
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in Java
• Index: Computer Science

Mockito for Spring

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Table of Contents

Mockito for Spring

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Familiar with the Spring Framework

Getting started with Spring

Exploring the Spring architecture

The core container

The AOP module

The instrumentation module

The messaging module

The data access module

The web layer

The test module

Learning the Inversion of Control

Printing Hello World

Examining life cycle messages

Working with autowiring and annotations

Working with aspects

Exploring Spring JDBC

Handling a transaction with Spring

Working with declarative Spring transaction

Exploring transaction attributes

Using the @Transactional annotation

Working with a programmatic Spring transaction

Using TransactionTemplate

Using PlatformTransactionManager

Building an MVC application with Spring

Summary

2. Working with JUnit and Mockito

Learning unit testing

Working with the JUnit framework

Configuring Eclipse

Examining annotations

Verifying an expectation with an assertion

Examining exception handling

Working with the @RunWith annotation

Working with test suites

Working with assertThat

Exploring equalTo, is, and not

Exploring compound matchers – either, both, anyOf, and allOf

Exploring collection matchers – hasItem and hasItems

Working with string matchers – startsWith, endsWith, and containsString

Exploring custom matchers

Working with Mockito

Learning the significance of Mockito

Exploring Mockito

Configuring Mockito

Mocking in action

Mocking objects

Stubbing methods

Verifying in depth

Verifying zero and no more interactions

Throwing exceptions

Summary

3. Working with Spring Tests

Exploring the TestContext framework

Writing a custom TestExecutionListener interface

Configuring Spring profiles

Mocking an environment

Mocking the JNDI lookup

Using ReflectionTestUtils

Working with annotations

Testing Spring MVC

Mocking the servlet container with MockMvc

Handling transactions in Spring tests

Summary

4. Resolving Out-of-container Dependencies with Mockito

Unit testing the web layer

Unit testing the service layer

Unit testing the data access layer

Summary

5. Time Travelling with Spring

Discovering the new Spring release

Working with asynchronous tasks

Exploring @RestController

Learning AsyncRestTemplate

Caching objects

Summary

Index

Mockito for Spring

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Author

Sujoy Acharya

Reviewers

Carlo Micieli

Gualtiero Testa

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About the Author

Sujoy Acharya works as a software architect with Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd. (STS). He grew up in a joint family and pursued his graduation in the fields of computer science and engineering. His hobbies are watching movies and sitcoms, playing outdoor sports, and reading books.

Sujoy likes to research upcoming technologies. His major contributions are in the fields of Java, J2EE, SOA, Ajax, GWT, and the Spring Framework.

He has authored three books for Packt Publishing, namely Test-Driven Development with Mockito, Mastering Unit Testing using Mockito and JUnit, and Mockito Essentials.

He designs and develops healthcare software products. He has over 11 years of experience in the industry and has architected and implemented large-scale enterprise solutions.

I'd especially like to thank my wife, Sunanda, firstly for pushing me to man up and finish the book, and additionally, for her patience and endless support in the many hours spent on reviewing my draft and providing valuable inputs.

I would also like to thank my mother and late father for their support, blessings, and encouragement.

To my 23-month-old kid, Abhigyan, I am sorry I couldn't be around as much as we all wanted and for the many times I had to get you away from the laptop. I love you very much.

About the Reviewers

Carlo Micieli has been a software developer since 2001, developing applications for computer-aided manufacturing with C#.

His main area of interest is application life cycle management, with a strong focus on topics such as software design and testing.

He is a programming languages enthusiast, and he's currently trying to learn Scala and Haskell. He shares his experiments on GitHub (http://github.com/CarloMicieli).

Gualtiero Testa is a software analyst, architect, and developer involved in Java enterprise-level web applications, mainly in the domains of banking, health, and government agencies. He lives in Pavia, Italy.

His main interests are test-driven development (TDD), testing tools and methodologies, and everything related to code quality.

You can reach him through his blog at http://www.gualtierotesta.it/.

I would like to thank my wife, Alessandra, and my daughters, Giulia and Francesca, because they are the source of my happiness.

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