I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read more

The Spock Framework is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. Its website make a somewhat bold claim: What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Before we can verify if this claim is true, we have to create an example project that we […] Read more

The traditional way to run a Spring web application on a remote server is to package it into a war file and deploy that file into a servlet container. Although this method has served us well in the past, managing multiple servlet containers has always been a bit cumbersome. Spring Boot provides one solution to […] Read more

My previous blog post described how we can add integration tests to our Gradle build. A few days after I had published that blog post, I learned that we don’t have to do everything from the scratch (thanks David) because we can simplify our build script by using the Gradle TestSets plugin. This blog post […] Read more

Because the standard project layout of a Java project defines only one test directory (src/test), we have no standard way to add integration tests to our Gradle build. If we want to use the standard project layout, we can add integration tests to our Gradle build by using one of the following options: We can […] Read more