I am running a spring boot application with spring-boot-starter dependencies, am facing a compile errors in my test cases if I don't import the following test dependencies
- spring-boot-test
- spring-test
- assertj-core
My understanding is that these are present already in the spring-boot-starter-parent and I can see them too. However, because of the compile time errors I am forced to import them into pom.xml as below, but then I get warnings that
Duplicating managed version 1.5.6.RELEASE for spring-boot-test
Duplicating managed version 4.3.10.RELEASE for spring-test
and similiarly for assertj-core
You can see the places where the warnings occur in pom.xml here 
And my pom.xml is as follows
<properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <java.version>1.8</java.version> <json.version>20160810</json.version> </properties> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>1.5.6.RELEASE</version> </parent> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>mysql</groupId> <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler</groupId> <artifactId>ecj</artifactId> <version>4.6.1</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.hateoas</groupId> <artifactId>spring-hateoas</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId> </dependency> <!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> </dependency> --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId> <version>1.5.6.RELEASE</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId> <version>4.3.10.RELEASE</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.assertj</groupId> <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId> <version>3.8.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.json</groupId> <artifactId>json</artifactId> <version>${json.version}</version> </dependency> Parts of my code where the compile errors occurs if I dont include the test dependencies is below. The @SpringBootTest and the TestRestTemplate cannot be imported if the dependencies are not present.
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment; import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate; import org.springframework.http.HttpEntity; import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders; import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod; import org.springframework.http.MediaType; import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException; @RunWith(SpringRunner.class) @SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT) public class MatchControllerTest { // Test RestTemplate to invoke the APIs. @Autowired private TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate; //....and other part of the code Why is this happening ?
- Why are the test dependencies having to be manually included in the pom.xml if they are already present in the spring-boot-starter-parent
- Once included, it is showing a duplcating managed version warning (probably rightly so...).
I am probably doing something silly/wrong - please help !
