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

Perhaps you could use qualifiers for your beans? You would redefine the beans you want to mock up in a separate application context and label them with a qualifier "test". In your unit tests, when wiring your beans always specify the qualifier "test" to use the mock ups.