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Implementing Unit Tests for a Kafka Producer and Consumer that uses Spring Cloud Stream

Step-by-step guide on how to implement Unit tests for News Producer and Consumer apps using Spring Testing library

Ivan Franchin
Javarevisited
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7 min readOct 25, 2023

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In this article, we will explain how to implement Unit Tests in two Spring Boot Kafka applications: News Producer and News Consumer.

You can find the complete code and implementation in the article linked below. Feel free to follow the steps explained in the article and get started.

This is one article of a series of articles where we are using the News Producer and News Consumer as base applications. Throughout these articles, we’ll cover topics such as implementing unit tests, implementing end-to-end tests and deployment to Kubernetes.

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Ivan Franchin
Javarevisited

Lead Software Developer with BS and MS in Computer Science. Writing about Java, Spring, software development in general, and emerging technologies.