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Building Scalable Applications with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot

Introduction to Cypress

Explore Cypress as a tool for robust front-end testing in Spring Boot applications. Understand the drawbacks of mock servlet environments and how Cypress enables end-to-end tests with real browser execution to improve test accuracy and reliability.

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Earlier, we used @WebMvcTest to start a mock servlet environment for our testing. It had a few limitations which we’ll discuss below.

Drawbacks of @WebMvcTest

While @WebMvcTest has a lot of advantages, there are also a few drawbacks:

  • There might be a difference between the mock servlet environment and the actual behavior of Tomcat.

  • We are not doing an end-to-end test from HTML to the ...