Testing Spring Security Applications

In addition to spring-boot-starter-test, Spring Security provides an artifact tailored specifically for testing purposes. Its primary purpose is to provide utilities and classes that assist developers in writing tests for applications that use Spring Security for authentication and authorization.

Some of the key functionalities provided by org.springframework.security:spring-security-test include:

• Mocking Authentication: It allows you to easily mock authentication and authorization contexts during testing, enabling you to simulate different user roles and permissions.
• Integration Testing: It provides support for integration testing by offering utilities for setting up security configurations in your test environment, ensuring that your security configurations are correctly applied and tested.
• Testing Security Filters: Spring Security often involves configuring a chain of filters to handle authentication and authorization tasks...