Building standalone controller tests

There are times when individual controller testing is preferable to loading the whole context into the Spring TestContext framework. This mechanism is only applicable to controllers that have fewer dependencies on other beans of the container, which makes them easy to test individually.

Getting ready

Once again, open the Maven ch03 project and add the following standalone controller test cases.

How to do it...

Let us test some existing controllers in ch03 by performing the following steps:

1. Create another test class inside org.packt...