Quarkus MCP Testing for Java Developers: McpAssured + IBM Bob

In the first part of this series, we built a real Quarkus MCP server and connected it to IBM Bob. The server exposed tools, resources, resource templates, and prompts over Streamable HTTP. We also added one smoke test that posted raw JSON-RPC to /mcp and checked that tools/list returned our tool names. That test proved something important, but only one thing. It proved the server starts, accepts MCP traffic, and survives the initialization handshake. That is useful. It is not enough. Most deve