Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

Chapter 8. Testing RESTful Web Services

Testing is an inherent aspect of building commercial software solutions. Indeed, testing should be considered at every step of the development process, and a software package should only be considered ready when the complete test suite is successful.

In this chapter, we will apply the following testing strategies to our sample RESTful web service:

• Unit testing Spring controllers
• Mocking
• Testing security
• Integration strategies
• Other forms of testing to consider

Unit testing Spring controllers

Since we declared RESTful endpoints as Java methods with annotations, normal unit testing techniques can be employed. The de facto unit testing library for Java is JUnit. (http://www.junit.org). JUnit is a simple framework used ...