Unit tests with Spock

This article has first appeared in Today Software Magazine

Why Spock?

When we first started working on our project at work, we searched for an easy-to-use tool that would help us write readable and concise tests. We chose Spock, because in combination with Groovy it provided exactly what we needed: readable BDD-style tests that we could write fast and change easily. Keep in mind that Spock can also be used in combination with Java, but has a great synergy with Groovy.

All the examples in this article are written in Groovy, but fear not! If you are a little bit familiar with Java, you will see that you can read Groovy code. Because our project’s tests examples would have been too complicated for a Spock introduction, I have chosen examples from a kata I coded to practice TDD.

1. Getting started

Adding Spock with Gradle is easy. This is my build.gradle file:

apply plugin: ‘groovy’

repositories {

    mavenCentral()

}

dependencies {

    testCompile(

            ‘junit:junit:4.12’,

            ‘org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.4.4’,

            ‘org.spockframework:spock-core:1.0-groovy-2.4’,

    )

    testRuntime(

// for spock reports

            ‘com.athaydes:spock-reports:1.2.7’

    )

}

Write the first falling test:

import spock.lang.Specification

class SeeIfItWorksSpec extends Specification {

   def “it should fail”() {

      expect:

      false

   }

}

The output is:

Condition not satisfied:

false

Afterwards, replace false with true. If the output is “Tests PASSED”, your setup is complete.

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