This document summarizes tests performed on Spock and Groovy frameworks for UI automation and REST API testing. Groovy and the Spock framework provide a simple, informative, and powerful way to write fast and stable tests with capabilities like JSON/XML parsing and mocking. Code examples show how to use the RESTClient library to make requests and assertions in a Spock specification.

1. Fabulous tests on
Spock and Groovy
Yaroslav Pernerovskyy
2017

2. Yaroslav Pernerovskyy
2005 – Celenia
2010 – Luxoft
2013 – GlobalLogic
Skype: celenia_ype

3. Pains

4. UI Automation Hell
Inverted Test Pyramid
People Shortage

5. Needs

6. Fast and stable tests
Build the Pyramid
Manual Testers involvement
CI integration and reporting
Java infrastructure

7. Research

8. SoapUI/MavenPlugin
Java/RestAssured/JUnit
Groovy/RESTClient/Spock

9. Solution

10. Groovy
JVM compatible
Dynamically typed language
Powerful Strings
JSON/XML parsing
Informative Assertions
Syntactic sugar

11. Spock Framework
Testing
Framework
BDD
Specification
Mocking
Framework

12. RESTclient
def client = new RESTClient('http://path')

13. RESTclient
client.get()

14. RESTclient
client.post(
headers:[cookie: "cookie"],
contentType: JSON,
body: "{value:15, result:false}",
query: [id:15])

15. RESTclient
return HttpResponseDecorator

17. Framework?

18. Test Case Layer (Spock Specification)
Actions Library Test Data Providers
Requests Library Helpers/Utilities
HTTP Client
System Under Test

19. Show me the Code

20. Conclusions

21. Simple
Informative
Powerful

22. Code https://github.com/ysparrow/groovy-test-for-rest
Video https://youtu.be/5elqH5UNwkk
Groovy http://groovy-lang.org/documentation.html
Spock http://spockframework.org/spock/docs/1.1-rc-2/all_in_one.html
RESTClient https://github.com/jgritman/httpbuilder/wiki/RESTClient
Allure http://allure.qatools.ru/
SoapUI https://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui.html
RESTfull http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
HTTP RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5
JSON HAL https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-kelly-json-hal-03.txt
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