Spring Test & Security: How to mock authentication?

Spring Test & Security: How to mock authentication?

References

Reference NO 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15203485/spring-test-security-how-to-mock-authentication

Reference NO 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15521310/mock-object-for-authentication-in-spring-security

Reference NO 3

http://grails.org/plugin/spring-security-mock

Reference NO 4

http://fstyle.de/hp_fstyle/wordpress/2013/03/04/spring-test-spring-security-how-to-mock-authentication/

Reference NO 5

http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?108101-Mocking-out-authentication-for-functional-tests-when-using-Spring-Security

Reference NO 6

https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security-oauth/blob/master/spring-security-oauth2/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/oauth2/provider/endpoint/TestTokenEndpointAuthenticationFilter.java

Reference NO 7

http://www.tikalk.com/java/spring-security-authentication-unit-integration-tests

Reference NO 8

http://pvdrijst.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/java-test-spring-security-granted-authorities-without-mocking-anything/