February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 20m
English
As you saw from this example, writing tests can be just as elaborate and sophisticated as the production code being tested itself. Let's examine the steps that we took in order to get the Spock tests integrated into our Spring Boot application.
The first thing that we did was to add a Groovy plugin in order to make our build Groovy-friendly, and we also added the required Spock library dependencies of spock-core and spock-spring, both of which are required to make Spock work with Spring's dependency injection and contexts.
The next step was to create the SpockBookRepositorySpecification Spock specification, which extends the Spock's specification abstract base class. Extending the Specification class is very important because ...