As you might have read in the previous section, there are some different strategies and approaches to the tests in your application. I have briefly mentioned all of them, so now we may proceed to the practical aspects. Spring Boot provides a set of utilities that help in the implementation of automated tests. In order to enable these features in the project, you have to include the spring-boot-starter-test starter to the dependencies. It imports not only the spring-test and spring-boot-test artifacts, but also some other useful test libraries, such as JUnit, Mockito, and AssertJ:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> <scope>test</scope>
