Maintaining Grails plugins can be a real challenge given the high expectations and demands. Apart from supporting many users, you’re tasked with making sure that the plugin is compatible with a range of Grails versions – both old and new. Your plugin must also be compatible with multiple development environments …
This presentation explains how you can do Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails. This session presents the good and the bad of BDD. It then presents and Cucumber as an open source tool to implement BDD. Finally, it discusses the Grails Cucumber Plugin.
Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. This session will demonstrate the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins.
Spock is a popular open source testing framework (mainly) for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Thanks to its JUnit runner, Spock is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers.
This talk looks at strategies for testing a Grails application secured by one or more of the Spring Security plugins. We’ll look at functional tests for URL-based security, as well as integration tests to validate the security configuration and to verify ACLs. In addition we’ll look at which test phases …
This video present different ways to test Gaelyk applications. Learn how to unit test Gaelyk groovlets using gaelyk-spock library. The second part focuses on the latest facilitations of writing functional tests for Gaelyk applications using Geb framework.
