Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Writing tests using Spock

Another no-less-popular testing framework is Spock, which was written in Groovy by Peter Niederwieser. Being a Groovy-based framework, it is ideally suited to create testing suites for a majority of the JVM-based languages, especially for Java and Groovy itself. The dynamic language traits of Groovy make it well suited to write elegant, efficient, and expressive specifications in the Groovy language without the need for translations. It is done in Cucumber with the help of the Gherkin library. Being based on top of JUnit, and integrating with it through the JUnit's @RunWith facility, just like Cucumber does, it is an easy enhancement to the traditional unit tests and works well with all the existing tools, which ...