Spring – Running Junit test cases using 2 separate spring Application Context

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I have a set of integration JUnit test cases that I want to run under 2 or more separate spring application contexts. Application contexts differ in configuration settings and bean wirings. However, if I specify the application context file name using the @ContextConfiguration annotation at the top of the JUnit classes then I am only able to run these test cases once for the specified application context. Is it possible to run the same JUnit test cases with different application contexts?

Also, I am interested to execute the test cases once for each application context in the same test run – mvn test.

Best Answer

Put your test code in an abstract class and use subclasses with different @ContextConfigurations. See http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html#testing-examples-petclinic

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Spring – Injecting Mockito mocks into a Spring bean

The best way is:

<bean id="dao" class="org.mockito.Mockito" factory-method="mock"> 
    <constructor-arg value="com.package.Dao" /> 
</bean>

Update
In the context file this mock must be listed before any autowired field depending on it is declared.

Spring – JUnit custom runner with Spring application context

You can create a base test class - @ContextConfiguration can be inherited, as well as @Before, @After, and so on:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/META-INF/spring/testContext.xml" }) 
public abstract class myBaseTest { 
    @Before
    public void init() {
        // custom initialization code for resources loaded by testContext.xml 
    }

    @After
    public void cleanup() {
        // custom cleanup code for resources loaded by testContext.xml
    }
}

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class myTest extends myBaseTest { ... }

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