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What are the most modern / simple / easy testing techniques for plain Java apps and for spring projects?
Spring's documentations uses JUnit with TestRestTemplate or Mockito & MockMVC
Which of these is better for large projects? What if the goal is easy-ness of writing tests?
Are there better alternatives?
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dreamy grove
You can use mockito with JUnit.
JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, Testcontainers, awaitility and datafaker are some pretty commonly used libraries.
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Oo, some of those are new to me - will need to go through those
Do you have any sample repos I can refer to which test rest apis? (really - really extensively, as if it was a large rest api)
everything from data validation, response codes, json serialization, database schema etc?
dreamy grove
I'd start easy with https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic .
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Also how do I decide whether to use TestRestTemplate or something a bit more low level (?) like mockMvc? the resttemplate testing code seems more concise and cleaner - from what I'm seeing the only difference is that mockMvc doesnt have the server overhead
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I currently have the petclinic repo open side by side haha and I'm going through the spring.academy learning path - my only gripe is the mismatch between the way both do things, academy uses @RestController and a simpler design
altho thats probably a good thing lol, the spring.academy course was a bit on the simpler side so maybe I just should understand petclinic properly
Thanks for all these resources, for some context I'm coming over from the Python world and connecting the dots have been fun - recently started an internship where they're making us build a spring app to learn in 2 weeks (!) and god I wish I could just do deep-dives into stuff without having to rush through things, hate having half the picture of things
