Mocking With the Mockito Framework and Testing REST APIs [Video]

Overview

This session covers the following topics:

• Recap of the Unit Testing session - Introduction to Unit Tests in Java using JUnit 5 [Video]

• Recap of Test Driven Development (TDD) session - JUnit5 Deep Dive Using Test Driven Development [Video]

• Introduction to following terminologies and their differences

  • Dummy Class
  • Fake Class
  • Stub Class
  • Mock Class

• Basics of Spring Boot

• Testing REST services with example service for Hello World and Factorial

• Mocking with the Mockito framework

Pre-Requisites

• You should have Spring Tools Suite (STS) 4 or Any other open source IDE installed on your laptop with Java SDK 1.8.
• Some understanding of dependency management and build tools like Ant, Maven or Gradle would be helpful but not essentially required.
• familiarity with Unit Testing using JUnit (As covered in the previous session)
• For maximum benefit from this session, you can try out the step together while watching this on your computer.

Note: No slides were presented during this session; concepts were explained using Live Coding.