Spock Framework Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Mastering Spring Cloud Gateway Testing: Predicates (part 1)

  I love using the Spock framework for its simplicity, readability, and maintainability. That's why we use Spock to drive our integration tests. - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago

• Helidon Níma is the first Java microservices framework based on virtual threads

  Well I care a lot that it exists. And many other people I know do as well. Just because you don't seem to like it, you shouldn't imagine everyone else is like you. Maybe Grails is no longer used as much (like Rails itself), but Groovy found other usages since then, like https://spockframework.org/ and Jenkins pipelines (https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/). It's not going anywhere, and I see no reason... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: What's your favorite software testing framework and why?

  In my opinion it is Spock for Java/Groovy [1]. The amount of functionality and readability you can squeeze from Groovy's DSLesque is absurd. Is basically a full fledged new test language with Java sprinkled as the test contents code [1]: https://spockframework.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Are there languages that allow to extend its syntax ?

  Groovy allows you to perform transforms on it's AST. If you look at the Spock framework, they used AST transforms to pull off a lot of the DSL. Source: about 2 years ago

• Using Cucumber and Spock for API test Automation — What Benefits Can You Expect?

  Spock and Cucumber exemplify the philosophy of behavior-driven development (BDD). The principle behind BDD is that you must first define the desired result of the added feature in a subject-oriented language before writing any tests. The developers are then given the final documentation. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• groovy newbie - bit of help

  Spock is awesome for testing just about anything in the JVM. Source: almost 3 years ago

• HTTPS Client Certificate Authentication With Java

  As a quick demonstration, the following (Spock) test asserts that the client JVM code fails to create an SSL connection with the service. Note that I chose to use Vert.x Web Client to handle interacting with the service, but don't let this decision distract from the core content of this post. Nevertheless, if you haven't used Vert.x, I encourage you to try it out -- especially for building server-side network... - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago