If you look at your tests, do you see a lot of repetitive patterns? Or are you looking for a way to express your intent more easily? Then, Spock might be for you. The talk “Spock: boldly go where no test has gone before” by Andres Almiray (slides on slideshare) gave a good introduction to the framework. Here is an example:
class HelloSpock extends spock.lang.Specification {
def "length of Spock's and his friends' names"() {
expect:
name.size() == length
where:
name | length
"Spock" | 5
"Kirk" | 4
"Scotty" | 6
}
}
In a nutshell, this creates three tests, running the assertion name.size() == length for each tuple of values. Here is an example how to test a stack.
But this is just one of many ways which you can use to describe tests that Spock should execute for you. The page “WhySpock” lists 10 reasons.
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