Java Testing with Spock

306 Pages·2016·12.289 MB·English

by  Konstantinos Kapelonis

Konstantinos Kapelonis
F Luke Daley
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brief contents
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS AND BRIEF TOUR OF SPOCK ................... 1
1 ■ Introducing the Spock testing framework 3
2 ■ Groovy knowledge for Spock testing 31
3 ■ A tour of Spock functionality 62
PART 2 STRUCTURING SPOCK TESTS ...................................... 89
4 ■ Writing unit tests with Spock 91
5 ■ Parameterized tests 127
6 ■ Mocking and stubbing 157
PART 3 SPOCK IN THE ENTERPRISE ...................................... 191
7 ■ Integration and functional testing with Spock 193
8 ■ Spock features for enterprise testing 224

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contents
foreword xv
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about this book xxi
about the cover illustration xxiv
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS AND BRIEF TOUR OF SPOCK ....... 1
1 Introducing the Spock testing framework 3
1.1 What is Spock? 4
Mocking and stubbing 5 ■ Behavior-driven development 5
Spock’s design features 5 ■ Spock’s coding features 6
1.2 The need for a testing framework 8
Spock as an enterprise-ready test framework 9 ■ Common ways
to handle enterprise complexity 13
1.3 Spock: the groovier testing framework 15
Asserts vs. Assertions 15 ■ Agnostic testing of Java and
Groovy 15 ■ Taking advantage of Groovy tricks in Spock tests 16
1.4 Getting an overview of Spock’s main features 16
Enterprise testing 17 ■ Data-driven tests 17
Mocking and stubbing 17
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