Re: [GSoC] Unit testing with Spock

2013-07-02 Thread Chip Childers
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:28:24PM +0100, Ian Duffy wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there would be any objections to using Spock for > writing unit tests for a plugin instead of junit and mockito. > > Spock is JUnit under the hood but an excellent DSL. It supports > behavior driven developmen

Re: [GSoC] Unit testing with Spock

2013-07-02 Thread Daan Hoogland
The framework promises good things. Just a little warning; there are a lot of frameworks for testing. Let's not have a jungle of them in. If it does something very good that is not done by the present ones go ahead. But what about testng and fixture and xmlunit and htmlunit and All do things v

Re: [GSoC] Unit testing with Spock

2013-07-02 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
On 7/2/13 2:28 PM, Ian Duffy wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there would be any objections to using Spock for writing unit tests for a plugin instead of junit and mockito. Spock is JUnit under the hood but an excellent DSL. It supports behavior driven development style of testing with criteria br

[GSoC] Unit testing with Spock

2013-07-02 Thread Ian Duffy
Hi, I was wondering if there would be any objections to using Spock for writing unit tests for a plugin instead of junit and mockito. Spock is JUnit under the hood but an excellent DSL. It supports behavior driven development style of testing with criteria broken down into given, when, then. I h