1.1. What is Spock?
This book is about Spock, a comprehensive testing framework for Java (and Groovy) code that can help you automate the boring, repetitive, and manual process of testing a software application. Spock is comprehensive because it’s a union of existing Java testing libraries, as shown in figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1. Spock among existing Java testing tools
As the figure shows, Spock is a superset of the de facto testing framework for Java: JUnit (http://junit.org/). Spock also comes with built-in capabilities for features that normally require additional libraries. At its core, Spock is a testing framework capable of handling the full ...
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