Spring beans redefinition in unit test environment

Question

We are using Spring for my application purposes, and Spring Testing framework for unit tests. We have a small problem though: the application code loads a Spring application

Answer 1

You do not need to use any test contexts (doesn't matter is XML or Java based). Since Spring boot 1.4 there is available new annotation @MockBean which introduced native support for mocking and Spying of Spring Beans.