diff --git a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.java b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.java
index c7ec885a67a142729cb61f62f8c9503329a97c7d..87594e4820f3592e8e85956661041b2dcc9daf86 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.java
+++ b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilder.java
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 
 package org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.security.Principal;
@@ -33,8 +36,10 @@ import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
 import org.springframework.beans.Mergeable;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpInputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
 import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;
 import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpSession;
@@ -603,24 +608,10 @@ public class MockHttpServletRequestBuilder
 			}
 		}
 
-		try {
-			if (this.url.getRawQuery() != null) {
-				request.setQueryString(this.url.getRawQuery());
-			}
-
-			MultiValueMap<String, String> queryParams =
-					UriComponentsBuilder.fromUri(this.url).build().getQueryParams();
-
-			for (Entry<String, List<String>> entry : queryParams.entrySet()) {
-				for (String value : entry.getValue()) {
-					value = (value != null) ? UriUtils.decode(value, "UTF-8") : null;
-					request.addParameter(UriUtils.decode(entry.getKey(), "UTF-8"), value);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
-			// shouldn't happen
+		if (this.url.getRawQuery() != null) {
+			request.setQueryString(this.url.getRawQuery());
 		}
+		addRequestParams(request, UriComponentsBuilder.fromUri(this.url).build().getQueryParams());
 
 		for (String name : this.parameters.keySet()) {
 			for (String value : this.parameters.get(name)) {
@@ -632,6 +623,13 @@ public class MockHttpServletRequestBuilder
 		request.setContent(this.content);
 		request.setCharacterEncoding(this.characterEncoding);
 
+		if (this.content != null && this.contentType != null) {
+			MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parseMediaType(this.contentType);
+			if (MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED.includes(mediaType)) {
+				addRequestParams(request, parseFormData(mediaType));
+			}
+		}
+
 		if (!ObjectUtils.isEmpty(this.cookies)) {
 			request.setCookies(this.cookies.toArray(new Cookie[this.cookies.size()]));
 		}
@@ -695,6 +693,43 @@ public class MockHttpServletRequestBuilder
 		request.setPathInfo(this.pathInfo);
 	}
 
+	private void addRequestParams(MockHttpServletRequest request, MultiValueMap<String, String> map) {
+		try {
+			for (Entry<String, List<String>> entry : map.entrySet()) {
+				for (String value : entry.getValue()) {
+					value = (value != null) ? UriUtils.decode(value, "UTF-8") : null;
+					request.addParameter(UriUtils.decode(entry.getKey(), "UTF-8"), value);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
+			// shouldn't happen
+		}
+	}
+
+	private MultiValueMap<String, String> parseFormData(final MediaType mediaType) {
+		MultiValueMap<String, String> map;HttpInputMessage message = new HttpInputMessage() {
+			@Override
+			public InputStream getBody() throws IOException {
+				return new ByteArrayInputStream(content);
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			public HttpHeaders getHeaders() {
+				HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
+				headers.setContentType(mediaType);
+				return headers;
+			}
+		};
+		try {
+			map = new FormHttpMessageConverter().read(null, message);
+		}
+		catch (IOException ex) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException("Failed to parse form data in request body: ", ex);
+		}
+		return map;
+	}
+
 	private FlashMapManager getFlashMapManager(MockHttpServletRequest request) {
 		FlashMapManager flashMapManager = null;
 		try {
diff --git a/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilderTests.java b/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilderTests.java
index 5057e4c4044ce59018a325176bac91799930b14b..53c76989da29a51630b9088a34f53db66469b9b9 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilderTests.java
+++ b/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockHttpServletRequestBuilderTests.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.security.Principal;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -272,6 +273,20 @@ public class MockHttpServletRequestBuilderTests {
 		assertArrayEquals(new String[] {"bar", "baz"}, request.getParameterMap().get("foo"));
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void requestParameterFromRequestBodyFormData() throws Exception {
+		String contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8";
+		String body = "name+1=value+1&name+2=value+A&name+2=value+B&name+3";
+
+		MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequestBuilder(HttpMethod.POST, "/foo")
+				.contentType(contentType).content(body.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")))
+				.buildRequest(this.servletContext);
+
+		assertArrayEquals(new String[] {"value 1"}, request.getParameterMap().get("name 1"));
+		assertArrayEquals(new String[] {"value A", "value B"}, request.getParameterMap().get("name 2"));
+		assertArrayEquals(new String[] {null}, request.getParameterMap().get("name 3"));
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void acceptHeader() {
 		this.builder.accept(MediaType.TEXT_HTML, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
diff --git a/src/asciidoc/whats-new.adoc b/src/asciidoc/whats-new.adoc
index 4907766934d67251cae1da9d136045084b2e9956..079d690794182f4e20932fd057b379013862c581 100644
--- a/src/asciidoc/whats-new.adoc
+++ b/src/asciidoc/whats-new.adoc
@@ -672,5 +672,6 @@ Spring 4.3 also improves the caching abstraction as follows:
 === Testing Improvements
 
 * The JUnit support in the _Spring TestContext Framework_ now requires JUnit 4.12 or higher.
+* Server-side Spring MVC Test supports expectations on response headers with multiple values.
+* Server-side Spring MVC Test parses form data request content and populates request parameters.
 * Client-side Spring MVC Test supports expectations for form data in the request body.
-* Server-side Spring MVC Test supports expectations on response headers with multiple values.
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