Spock: Up and Running

Chapter 1. The “Up and Running” Part

Installation

Spock is available from the Maven Central and JCenter repositories. As of this writing, the current version is 1.1.

There are different versions for compatibility with Groovy 2.0+, 2.3+, and 2.4+. If you’re not using Groovy in the production code of your project there’s no reason to use anything other than the newest version of Groovy. Groovy need only be a test dependency of your project.

Running with the JUnit Runner

Spock is compatible with JUnit’s test runner. It should be possible to run Spock specifications anywhere you can run JUnit tests; that means with IDEs like IntelliJ Idea and Eclipse and command-line build tools such as Gradle and Maven.

Running with Gradle

To include Spock in a project built with Gradle, you simply need to include the spock-core library, as follows:

apply plugin: "groovy" 

repositories {
  jcenter() 
}

dependencies {
  testCompile "org.spockframework:spock-core:1.1-groovy-2.4" 
}

Include the Groovy Gradle plugin

Include the JCenter repository (or mavenCentral)

Include Spock on the testCompile classpath ...