Testing views and data binding is great, I'm all for it. Yet, I think most would agree that this clearly is not unit testing. The instant you include the Spring

Testing views and data binding is great, I'm all for it. Yet, I think most would agree that this clearly is not unit testing. The instant you include the Spring dependencies and instantiate your application context, you're testing the integration of those components. Again, this is a great thing and everyone should be doing it, but it isn't unit testing and treating it as such is going to cause problems.