Functional testing, as any other testing, is important to ensure the health of our apps. However, functional tests are often tricky, too susceptible to change, and their maintenance ends up being a nightmare. Are we hopeless then? Not at all! Luckily, there are tools to ease this task like Geb and Spock, which help us to create well structured, comprehensive, and easy to maintain tests. In this talk we will review these tools, showing different options for creating the tests.

1. Geb+Spock: let your functional
tests live long and prosper
Esther Lozano
@esloho

2. Hello! I’m Esther 2009
2015
@esloho
esloho@gmail.com
https://github.com/esloho

3. Functional tests

4. Spock
Testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications
Open source (Apache License 2.0)
Beautiful and highly expressive tests
Given-When-Then structure
JUnit integration (via Sputnik runner)

5. Geb
Groovy developer tool for browser automation (on top of WebDriver)
Open source (Apache License 2.0)
jQuery-ish navigation API
Page Object Pattern
Optimized for Spock but works with JUnit, TestNG and Cucumber-JVM

6. Page Object
Models and encapsulates web content
Popularized by WebDriver
Reduces amount of duplicated code
Improves reusability and maintainability
First class support in Geb via Page and Module constructs

7. Demo time!

8. And more!
JavaScript interface (js object to access methods and global variables)
JQuery adapter gives you the jQuery object (useful for simulating events)
Interaction DSL (on top of WebDriver’s Actions)
Remote browser (since it’s supported by Selenium)

9. References
Official Spock documentation http://spockframework.github.io/spock/docs/1.0/
Official Geb documentation (awesome!) http://www.gebish.org/manual/current/
Taming Functional Web Testing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMgf6ndoeU
Tutorial (in spanish) http://www.adictosaltrabajo.com/tutoriales/tests-funcionales-con-
spock-y-geb-para-una-aplicacion-spring-boot/
Demo code https://github.com/esloho/functional-testing-with-spock

10. @esloho
esloho@gmail.com
https://github.com/esloho
Questions?