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Building and Testing with Gradle

Building and Testing with Gradle

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by Matthew McCullough, Tim Berglund
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Release Date: July 2011
ISBN: 9781449306816
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Book Description

Gradle is the project automation tool that is taking the Java world by storm. This ebook shows you to us Gradle for building and testing software written in Java and other JVM languages. It covers transitioning to Gradle from Maven, integration with IDEs such as Eclipse, and more.

Table of Contents

  1. Building and Testing with Gradle
  2. Dedication
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  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
    1. Introduction
    2. Conventions Used in This Book
    3. Using Code Examples
    4. Safari® Books Online
    5. How to Contact Us
    6. Acknowledgments from Tim Berglund
    7. Acknowledgments from Matthew McCullough
  6. 1. Hello, Gradle!
    1. Build Files in Groovy
    2. Domain-Specific Build Languages
    3. Getting Started
      1. MacOS Installation with Brew
      2. Linux and MacOS Installation
      3. Windows Installation
    4. The Hello World Build File
    5. Building a Java Program
    6. The Gradle Command Line
  7. 2. Gradle Tasks
    1. Declaring a Task
    2. Task Action
    3. Task Configuration
    4. Tasks Are Objects
      1. Methods of DefaultTask
        1. dependsOn(task)
        2. doFirst(closure)
        3. doLast(closure)
        4. onlyIf(closure)
      2. Properties of DefaultTask
        1. didWork
        2. enabled
        3. path
        4. logger
        5. logging
        6. description
        7. temporaryDir
      3. Dynamic Properties
    5. Task Types
      1. Copy
      2. Jar
      3. JavaExec
    6. Custom Task Types
      1. Custom Tasks Types in the Build File
      2. Custom Tasks in the Source Tree
    7. Where Do Tasks Come From?
    8. Conclusion
  8. 3. Ant and Gradle
    1. The Vocabulary
    2. Hello Ant
    3. Importing Custom Ant Tasks
    4. Complex Ant Configuration
    5. Importing an Entire Ant Build File
    6. Ant Target and Gradle Task Codependence
    7. Using AntBuilder
    8. A Harmonic Duo
  9. 4. Maven and Gradle
    1. Cue Graven?
    2. The Maven POM and Gradle Build
    3. Maven Goals, Gradle Tasks
    4. The Standard Maven Coordinates, Gradle Properties
    5. More Gradle Properties
    6. Dependencies
    7. Repositories
    8. Unit Testing
    9. Multiple Source Directories
    10. Default Tasks
    11. The Maven Plug-in
    12. Installing to the Local Maven Repository (Cache)
    13. Publishing to a Maven Repository
    14. Maven2Gradle Build Script Converter
    15. Maven POM Import
    16. Conclusion
  10. 5. Testing with Gradle
    1. JUnit
    2. TestNG
    3. Spock
    4. Geb and EasyB
    5. Gradle’s Testing Focus
  11. 6. Multiproject Builds
    1. Multiproject Build Structure
    2. Project-Specific Build Files
    3. One Master Build File
    4. A Hybrid Multiproject Build
    5. Individual, Unified, or Hybrid?
    6. Multiproject Task Structure
    7. Multiple Projects Your Way
  12. About the Authors
  13. Colophon
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  15. Copyright