How to unit test a secured controller which uses thymeleaf (without getting TemplateProcessingException)?

Question

I am trying to run a unit test in spring-boot using spring security and a simple home (root) controller which uses thymeleaf for the template processing. I am trying to writ

Answer 1

If you don't care about testing returned view and would like to only test the controller, simply disable Thymeleaf is Spring boot 2+ in your test application properties file

spring.thymeleaf.enabled=false