Spring boot MockMvc Demo
MockMvc approach is to not start the server at all, but test only the layer below that, where Spring handles the incoming HTTP request and hands it off to your controller. That way, almost the full stack is used, and your code will be called exactly the same way as if it was processing a real HTTP request, but without the cost of starting the server. To do that we will use Spring’s MockMvc, and we can ask for that to be injected for us by using the @AutoConfigureMockMvc annotation on the test case:
Build with Maven
Create the directory structure
In order to avoid unnecessary record creation in PROD DB while execute the unit tests, by using different profiles we can manage DB.
└── src
└── main
└── java
└── com
└── service
└── EmployeeServiceApplication.java
└── controller
└── EmployeeController.java
└── entity
└── Employee.java
└── EmployeeRepository.java
└── service
└── EmployeeService.java
└── service
└── application.properties
└── application-dev.properties
└── application-prod.properties
Along with other Spring Web dependencies, need to use spring-boot-starter-test
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>