[[HowdoIreusetheContextTestSupportclassinmyunittests-HowdoIreusetheContextTestSupportclassinmyunittests]]
=== How do I reuse the ContextTestSupport class in my unit tests?

You might want to look at the various link:../testing.adoc[Testing]
options, in particular <<test-component,Camel Test>> and
link:../spring-testing.adoc[Spring Testing] to see if those are better,
more powerful options. We see `ContextTestSupport` as an older, less
powerful option.

There are a number of useful unit test cases and support classes you can
reuse in your own unit test cases.

If you use maven2 then here you go:

`ContextTestSupport`:

[source,java]
----
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
           <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
           <version>${camel-version}</version>
           <type>test-jar</type>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
----

`SpringTestSupport`:

[source,java]
----
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
           <artifactId>camel-test-spring</artifactId>
           <version>${camel-version}</version>
           <type>test-jar</type>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
----

If you don't use maven:

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/camel-core/2.22.1/camel-core-2.22.1-tests.jar
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/camel-test-spring/2.22.1/camel-test-spring-2.22.1.jar