From the course: Test-Driven Development in Spring Boot with JUnit and Mockito

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Setting up the development environment

Setting up the development environment

- [Instructor] Alright, let's get going and set up our development environment. Here's what we'll need. Java Maven or Gradle, I'll use Maven. A Java IDE. I'll use IntelliJ Community Edition. But the Ultimate Edition is actually really nice for this application, but it's not necessary. And if you have IntelliJ Community Edition, you'll need a Spring Boot starter website. But again, you don't need this when you have the ultimate edition because then it's built in. You can download IntelliJ from the JetBrains website and we'll go to the correct operating system by default. Mine is on Mac Os. You can see this is the ultimate edition. And in order to get to the community edition, you need to scroll down a little bit and then here you can select the right version for you. And then hit Download. Next we're going to go to start.spring.io, and here I can go ahead and create my Start project. Okay, so I'm going to select Maven. I want it to be a Java project. I'll choose the latest staple…

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