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We've now covered all the key features for creating and running tests with Spock. In Part 5, we finish up the Spock tutorial by looking at additional features that can help you to write short, descriptive, correct tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part …

In Part 4 of our Spock tutorial, we look at mocking and stubbing. The Spock framework has mocking and stubbing built in. Creating, using and verifying mocks and stubs is nicely aligned with the way the tests are written, and can lead to very readable tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Sta…

In Part 3 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at Data Driven Testing. This is one of my favourite things about Spock, although it is also supported in other frameworks like JUnit 5. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mockin…

In Part 2 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at writing Spock tests in more detail, including some tips on how to get the most from Groovy. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Ti…

Spock is a really interesting framework for writing automated tests on the JVM. Spock tests are written in Groovy, but they can be used to test Java classes as well. Check out our 30 minute video tutorial on how to write tests using Spock, or follow along with this series of blog posts, which contai…

In this blog, we're going to look at how to share code that we've written on our local machine to a repository on GitHub. https://youtu.be/4ukhZvOmAtk This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content q…

In this blog, we're going to take a look at both scratch files and scratch buffers and identify their key uses. This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watc…

In this blog, we're going to look at how to create an IntelliJ IDEA project from existing code in a GitHub repository. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBVOAnygcZw This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim t…

In this video we're going to take a look at IntelliJ IDEA's built in terminal. This performs the same function as your operating system's terminal or command feature, but using the terminal inside IntelliJ IDEA has a number of benefits. Opening the IntelliJ IDEA Terminal Window In this example we h…

On the 10th July 2020, JetBrains hosted a Technology Day for Java. We had 10 presentations and the videos for them are available here. Over the coming weeks, in no particular order, we'd like to share with you extra resources that our speakers kindly provided and any links to further reading or code…