MockMvc is defined as a main entry point for server-side Spring MVC testing. Tests with MockMvc lie somewhere between between unit and integration tests.

Is MockMvc integration test?

Technically speaking, tests using MockMvc are in the boundaries between unit and integration tests. They aren’t unit tests because endpoints are tested in integration with a Mocked MVC container with mocked inputs and dependencies.

What is spring integration test?

spring-integration-test aims to help with integration testing and provides a comprehensive high-level API to mock integration components and verify the behavior of individual components, including whole integration flows or only parts of them.