Testing with Spring 3.2

Spring MVC gives a test framework which MockMvc provides simulation of a servlet container. Its like your running on a mock server. This will help to test all your REST controllers from junit

@WebAppConfiguration
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:dispatch-servlet.xml" })
public class XXXXXXXXXControllerTest {
@Autowired
XXXXXXController xxxxxxxxxController;       
...

MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(xxxxxxxxxController).build();
...
 @Test
 public void shouldXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX() {
     mockMvc.perform(get("/a/1").accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)).
                                         andExpect(status().isOk())
   .andExpect(content().string("yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"));

}
}
Above is only if we know the name of the controller class. This is good for unit testing the controller classes

OR if you not need to use a given spring config you can use  WebApplicationContext as below

@WebAppConfiguration
public class YYYYYYYYYY{
    MockMvc mockMvc;
@Autowired
protected WebApplicationContext wac;
@Before
public void setup() {
mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(wac).build();
}
protected void shouldXXXXXXXXX() {
getMockMvc().perform(get(restCall)).andExpect(status().isOk());

}

}