@@ -5,24 +5,25 @@ It is important to be able to perform some integration testing without requiring
55deployment to your application server or connecting to other enterprise infrastructure.
66Doing so lets you test things such as:
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8- * The correct wiring of your Spring IoC container contexts.
9- * Data access using JDBC or an ORM tool. This can include such things as the correctness
10- of SQL statements, Hibernate queries, JPA entity mappings, and so forth.
8+ * The correct wiring of your Spring components.
9+ * Data access using JDBC or an ORM tool.
10+ ** This can include such things as the correctness of SQL statements, Hibernate queries,
11+ JPA entity mappings, and so forth.
1112
1213The Spring Framework provides first-class support for integration testing in the
13- `spring-test` module. The name of the actual JAR file might include the release version
14- and might also be in the long `org.springframework.test` form, depending on where you get
15- it from (see the xref:core/beans/dependencies.adoc[section on Dependency Management]
16- for an explanation ). This library includes the `org.springframework.test` package, which
14+ `spring-test` module. The name of the actual JAR file might include the release version,
15+ depending on where you get it from (see the
16+ {spring-framework-wiki}/Spring-Framework-Artifacts[Spring Framework Artifacts] wiki page
17+ for details ). This library includes the `org.springframework.test` package, which
1718contains valuable classes for integration testing with a Spring container. This testing
1819does not rely on an application server or other deployment environment. Such tests are
1920slower to run than unit tests but much faster than the equivalent Selenium tests or
2021remote tests that rely on deployment to an application server.
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2223Unit and integration testing support is provided in the form of the annotation-driven
23- xref:testing/testcontext-framework.adoc[Spring TestContext Framework]. The TestContext framework is
24- agnostic of the actual testing framework in use, which allows instrumentation of tests
25- in various environments, including JUnit, TestNG, and others.
24+ xref:testing/testcontext-framework.adoc[Spring TestContext Framework]. The TestContext
25+ framework is agnostic of the actual testing framework in use, which allows
26+ instrumentation of tests in various environments, including JUnit, TestNG, and others.
2627
2728The following section provides an overview of the high-level goals of Spring's
2829integration support, and the rest of this chapter then focuses on dedicated topics:
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