1.7. Comparing Spock and JUnit
Comparing JUnit and Spock in a single section is difficult because both tools have a different philosophy when it comes to testing. JUnit is a Spartan library that provides the absolutely necessary thing you need to test and leaves additional functionality (such as mocking and stubbing) to external libraries.
Spock takes a holistic approach, providing a superset of the capabilities of JUnit, while at the same time reusing its mature integration with tools and development environments. Spock can do everything that JUnit does and more, keeping backward compatibility as far as test runners are concerned.
What follows is a brief tour of some Spock highlights. Chapter 3 compares similar functionality between Spock and ...
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